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'Atmanirbhar Bharat' does not mean isolated India: Prasad
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SME Times News Bureau | 19 Jan, 2021
Union Minister for Communications,
Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday
said that 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' does not mean an isolated India.
Speaking
at the 15th India Digital Summit, organised by the Internet and Mobile
Association of India (IAMAI), the Minister said: "Atmanirbhar Bharat
means India is an active participant in the global economy. This is the
crux of the whole PLI scheme. India's time in the global electronic
manufacturing has come."
He said that India has become a hub for mobile manufacturing and this process is irreversible.
On
the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, Prasad said that all the
top global companies have applied for it, and committed to make mobile
phones and equipment worth Rs 10 lakh crore in the coming five years,
of which Rs 7 lakh crore would be for exports.
"India must become the biggest manufacturing centre in laptops, machine-to-machine equipments, tablets etc," he said.
"I
want to develop that ecosystem -- from mobile phones to smartphones to
laptops to tablets to M2M equipment, to IoT devices -- wherein India
becomes a huge centre for manufacturing these," the Minister added.
Noting
that India has become the second biggest mobile manufacturer in the
world, Prasad said that it currently has 268 mobile factories, as
against two factories in 2014.
Talking about Digital India,
Prasad said that the initiative was consciously designed to empower the
ordinary people and to bridge the digital divide and bring in digital
inclusion.
"Inclusion was the hallmark of Digital India. In the
last five-and-a-half years, we sent direct benefit transfer to close to
Rs 13 lakh crore and saved $24 billion dollars. We disbursed close to Rs
8,000 crore to Aadhaar-enabled payments during COVID-19 and the Postal
Department played a crucial role in this," he added.
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