India’s Cell Exports Soar From Rs 1,500 Cr To Rs 2 Lakh Cr In Decade: IT Minister | Know-how Information

New Delhi: India’s cell phone exports have surged 127 occasions over the previous decade, rising from Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 2 lakh crore, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Data Know-how, Jitin Prasada, knowledgeable the Lok Sabha in a written reply on Wednesday. The minister attributed this unprecedented development in cellular manufacturing to the Manufacturing-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme.

During the last ten years, cellular manufacturing in India has witnessed a 28-fold enhance, rising from ₹18,000 crore to ₹5.45 lakh crore. Below the aegis of the Nationwide Coverage on Electronics (NPE) 2019, the Ministry of Electronics and Data Know-how (MeitY) had notified the Manufacturing Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Massive-Scale Electronics Manufacturing (LSEM) and the PLI Scheme for IT {Hardware}.

“The PLI Scheme for Massive-Scale Electronics Manufacturing has considerably impacted the cellular manufacturing sector in India, significantly in remodeling the nation from a internet importer to a internet exporter of cell phones. Bharat is now the second-largest cellular manufacturing nation on the earth,” the minister said in his written reply.

As of June 2025, the PLI Scheme for Massive-Scale Electronics Manufacturing has attracted a cumulative funding of ₹12,390 crore, led to a cumulative manufacturing of ₹8,44,752 crore, exports price ₹4,65,809 crore, and created 1,30,330 direct jobs.

In the meantime, the PLI Scheme 2.0 for IT {Hardware} has attracted a cumulative funding of ₹717.13 crore, resulted in cumulative manufacturing price ₹12,195.84 crore, and generated 5,056 direct jobs as of June 2025. Complete International Direct Funding (FDI) within the electronics manufacturing sector over the past 5 years (since 2020–21) stands at USD 4,071 million, of which USD 2,802 million has been contributed by MeitY PLI beneficiaries.

As a part of its ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’ initiatives, the federal government launched PLI schemes throughout a number of sectors in 2020 to make Indian producers globally aggressive, entice investments, increase exports, combine India into the worldwide provide chain, and cut back import dependency.