India has emerged as a major global hub for electronics manufacturing, recording a six-fold jump in overall production and an eightfold rise in exports over the past 11 years, said Jitin Prasada, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, in a response in the Rajya Sabha, on Friday.

Electronics production in India surged from Rs 1.9 lakh crore in 2014–15 to Rs 11.32 lakh crore in 2024–25.

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A significant contributor has been mobile phone manufacturing, where the number of units has grown from just 2 in 2014 to over 300 in 2025, he shared.

Since the launch of the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for large-scale electronics manufacturing in 2020, mobile phone output has increased from Rs 2.2 lakh crore to Rs 5.5 lakh crore.

The scheme alone h

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