With an aim to boost design and innovation along with domestic production, Electronics and IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney has said that the government is likely to finalise new National Policy on Electronics in next couple of months. He also pointed that the country has huge opportunity to emerge in next generation devices which don’t exist at the moment and the government’s news policy will help to achieve this.
IT secretary noted that India must not only be positioned as a manufacturing hub but also as a hub for design innovation and manufacturing and to enable this, the new policy will take tremendous effort. He also listed the various sector specific electronics like medical electronics, automotive electronics, power electronics, defence electronics, in which huge scope is existed in India and added that the government has held wide consultation with industry players and other stakeholders to address their issues.
Besides, Sawhney underlined the problems faced by the country in agriculture, pollution, achieving swachhta goals and transportation which need to be solved, as it is fertile ground for innovation. He also said that there is tremendous potential for innovations for emergence of new devices and this is India’s decade.