Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in
the past year 37 new mobile factories have been set up in the country, generating direct employment for 40,000 people and indirect employment
for 1.25 lakh people.
“We have decided to make India a
big hub of electronic manufacturing. In the last one year, 37 new
mobile manufacturing units have come,” the minister said after
inaugurating the government-funded Electropreneur Park
He said that 11 crore mobile phones have been made in the country in
last one year compared to six crore earlier. “We have given jobs to 40
thousand people and 1.25 lakh indirect jobs,” Mr. Prasad said.
Besides
homegrown firms such as Karbonn, Lava, Micromax and Intex, Chinese
handset makers like Gionee and Xiaomi are also making their products in
India.
The Electropreneur Park aims to incubate 50
early stage start-ups and create at least five global companies over a
period of 5 years. Set-up in collaboration with academia and industry
represented by Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association, the
Electropreneur Park will focus on the creation of Intellectual Property
and product development to increase domestic manufacturing of
electronics items.
“India imports electronic good of
over Rs 3 lakh crore. By 2020 government aims to bring down import to
zero. The Electropreneur Park started today is a step in that
direction,” Minister of State for IT and Law P P Choudhary said.
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