Union Cabinet approves National Policy on Electronics 2012

26 Oct 2012 Evaluate

In an attempt to trigger the domestic manufacturing of electronic goods, the Union Cabinet of India has approved the National Policy on Electronics 2012. The directive has come with an aim to optimize the gap between domestic demand and supply in electronics goods, which has been envisaged to rise early to $300 billion by 2020, triggering huge import demand which might even exceed oil imports.

The centre targets to develop an eco-system for a globally competitive Electronic System and Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in India by garnering about $100 billion of investment. The government also anticipates that the new policy would generate fresh employment for about two million people.

The policy would also provide preferential market access to domestically manufactured electronic products and setting up of semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities. The domestic availability of electronic components as raw material is estimated to increase to more than 60% of the requirements by 2020 from current requirement of 20-25%. While in 2008-09, the domestic production was about $20 billion.

In absence of a government initiative, it was estimated that at the current rate of growth, domestic production can cater to a demand of $100 billion by 2020 as against demand of $400 billion. The rest would have to be met by imports. It also targets to increase exports of ESDM to $80 billion by 2020 from $5.5 billion at present.

The policy has been structured aiming to provide preference to indigenous electronic goods and has called for involvement of private sector universities and institutions for scaling up capacities. The government has also planned to set up specialized Institute for semi-conductor chip design.

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