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Soon cheap laptop-tablet-computer will be made in the country, 2 lakh people will get employment


To make India a manufacturing hub, the government had started the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. In this, the second phase will start for the IT hardware sector, which will create 2 lakh jobs in the country. Anand Prakash Pandey's report...

The Central Government has been trying for a long time to make India a manufacturing hub and give a tough competition to China in this matter. It has started with Apple Inc's large scale manufacturing of its products in India. Now the government is encouraging to make cheap laptops, tablets and other IT hardware like computers in the country. This is also expected to provide employment to 2 lakh people in the country.

After the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav informed that the government has approved the second phase of the PLI scheme worth Rs 17,000 crore for IT hardware. The government has started the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for different sectors in the country. In this, manufacturing companies in India get benefits from the government on the basis of their production.

2 lakh jobs will be created

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav informed that the government will make a budgetary provision of Rs 17,000 crore under the PLI scheme for IT hardware. This amount will be spent in the next 6 years. This will provide direct employment to about 75,000 people and indirect employment to about 2 lakh people in the country.

With this, he told that the benefit of this scheme of the government will go to the companies making laptops, tablets, all in one personal computers, servers and other small IT hardware devices.

3.35 lakh crore products will be ready

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav informed that every year the production of laptops, tablets and personal computers will increase in the country and in this way products worth Rs 3.35 lakh crore will be prepared. At the same time, a total investment of Rs 2,430 crore will also come for this.

The government had launched the PLI scheme in April 2020. While the PLI scheme for IT hardware was launched in February 2021. For this, the government had allocated Rs 7,350 crore for this. After this, the hardware manufacturing companies had requested the government to increase the allocation.

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