Rs 62,500 crore boost: India-designed phones may come up in 14 months

The government on Friday notified a Rs 62,500-crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme — an incentive programme spread across five years aimed at scaling up production of mobile handsets in India. The scheme will be effective from April 1, 2026, and run through the financial year 2031. Announcing the scheme, Minister for Information Technology Ashwani Vaishnaw […]