Make in India
Make in India
Objective
1. To facilitate Job
Creation and Skill enhancement in 25 sectors of Indian economy.
2. To manufacture
high quality products in India with minimising the impact on the
environment.
3. To attract capital and technological investment in India.
4. To bring down the imports of India, especially the military imports.
Launch & Initiatives taken
1. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on 25 September 2014 to encourage multi-national, as well as national companies to
manufacture their products in India.
2.
Under the initiative, brochures on the 25 sectors
and a web portal were released.
3.
Before the initiative was launched, foreign equity
caps in various sectors had been relaxed.
4.
The application for licenses was made available
online and the validity of licences was increased to three years. Various other
norms and procedures were also relaxed.
5.
As per the new Govt. Policy, 100% FDI is permitted
in all the below mentioned 25 sectors, except for space (74%), defence (49%) and news media (26%).
1.
Automobiles
2.
Automobile Components
3.
Aviation
4.
Biotechnology
5.
Chemicals
6.
Construction
7.
Defence manufacturing
8.
Electrical Machinery
9.
Electronic systems
10. Food Processing
11. Information
Technology and Business Process Management
12. Leather
13. Media and
Entertainment
14. Mining
15. Oil and Gas
16. Pharmaceuticals
17. Ports and Shipping
18. Railways
19. Renewable Energy
20. Roads and Highways
21. Space and astronomy
22. Textiles and
Garments
23. Thermal Power
24. Tourism and
Hospitality
25. Wellness
Ease
of doing business
1.
India ranks 130th out of 189 countries in the World
Bank's 2016 ease of doing business index,
covering the period from June 2014 and June 2015. India was ranked 134th in the
2015 index.
2.
A survey of 17 Indian cities in the World Bank's Doing
Business in India 2009 report ranked Ludhiana, Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Gurgaon, and Ahmedabad as the top five easiest cities to do business in
India.
Progress Made
1. In
January 2015, the Spice
Group said it would start a mobile phone
manufacturing unit in Uttar
Pradesh with an investment of ₹5 billion (US$74 million).
A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Spice Group and the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
2.
In January 2015, Hyun Chil Hong, the President
& CEO of Samsung South
Asia, met with Kalraj Mishra, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises(MSME), to discuss a joint
initiative under which 10 "MSME-Samsung Technical Schools" will be
established in India. In February, Samsung said
that will manufacture the Samsung
Z1 in its plant in Noida,
Uttar Pradesh.
3.
In February
2015, Hitachi said it was committed to the initiative. It said that it would
increase its employees in India from 10,000 to 13,000 and it would try to
increase its revenues from India from ¥100 billion in 2013 to ¥210 billion. It
said that an auto-component plant will be set up in Chennai in 2016.
4.
In February 2015, Huawei opened a new R&D campus in Bengaluru. It had invested US$170 million to
establish the research and development centre. It is also in the process
of setting up a Telecom hardware manufacturing plant in Chennai, the approvals
of which have been granted by the central government.
5.
In
February 2015, Marine Products Export Development
Authority said that it was interested in supplying
shrimp eggs to shrimp farmers in India under the initiative.
6.
In February 2015, Xiaomi began initial talks with the Andhra Pradesh
government to begin manufacturing smartphones at a Foxconn-run facility in Sri
City. On 11 August 2015, the company announced that the
first manufacturing unit was operational and introduced the Xiaomi Redmi 2
Prime, a smartphone that was assembled at the facility. Xiaomi India chief
executive stated that they announced their Make in India plans in the beginning
of this year 2015. They thought it would take us two years to set up this
manufacturing plant. But surprisingly they were able to set up everything and their
production started within seven months.
7.
In June 2015, France-based LH Aviation signed an
MoU with OIS Advanced Technologies to set up a manufacturing plant in India to
manufacture drones.
8.
In August
2015, Foxconn announced that it would invest US$5 billion over
five years to set up a research and development and hi-tech semiconductor
manufacturing facility in Maharashtra. Less than a week earlier, General Motors
had announced that it would invest US$1 billion to begin
manufacturing automobiles in the state.
9. In August 2015, Lenovo announced
that it had begun manufacturing Motorola smartphones
at a plant in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, run by
Singapore-based contract manufacturer Flextronics International
Ltd. The plant has separate manufacturing lines for Lenovo and Motorola, as
well as quality assurance, and product testing. The first smartphone
manufactured at the facility was the 4G variant of the Motorola Moto E (2nd generation).
10.
In October 2015, Boeing chairman James McNerney said
that the company could assemble fighter planes and either the Apache or Chinook defence
helicopter in India. The company is also willing to manufacture the F/A-18
Super Hornet in India if the Indian Air Force (IAF) were to purchase it.
11.
In November 2015, Taiwan's Wistron Corp, which
makes devices for companies such as Blackberry, HTC and Motorola, announced
that it would begin manufacturing the devices at a new factory in Noida, Uttar
Pradesh. A company spokesperson stated that the government's 'Make in India'
campaign, coupled with the country's growing consumption, makes an excellent
case for the Indian manufacturing sector to emerge as a global manufacturing
hub across sectors.
12.
In November 2015, the Ministry of Railways signed
formal agreements with Alstom and GE Transport worth ₹400 billion (US$5.9 billion)
to set-up locomotive manufacturing factories in Madhepura and Marhaura in
Bihar.
13.
In December 2015, Qualcomm announced that it was
starting a "Design in India" programme to help mentor up to ten
Indian hardware companies with the potential to come up with innovative
solutions and help them reach scale. Qualcomm chairman had promised Prime
Minister Modi that they would do so during the latter's visit to Silicon Valley
in September 2015. As part of the programme, the company will set up an
Innovation Lab in Bengaluru to provide technical and engineering support to the
selected companies.
14.
In the same month, Micromax announced that it would
three new manufacturing units in Rajasthan, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh at a
cost of ₹3 billion (US$45 million). The plants will begin
functioning in 2016, and will each employ 3,000-3,500 people.
15.
Following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's
visit to India in December 2015, it was announced that Japan would set up a US$12
billion fund for Make in India related projects called the
"Japan-India Make-in-India Special Finance Facility". In late
December, phone manufacturer Vivo Mobile India began manufacturing smartphones
at a plant in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The plant employs 2,200 people.
16.
A defence deal was signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
visit to Russia in December 2015 which will see the Kamov Ka-226 multi-role helicopter being built in India.
This is widely seen as the first defence deal to be actually signed under the
Make in India campaign.
17.
In August 2015, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
began talks with Russia's Irkut Corp to transfer technology of 332 components
of the Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter aircraft under the Make in India program. These
components, also called line replacement units (LRUs), refer to both critical
and non-critical components and fall into four major heads such as Radio and
Radar; Electrical & Electronics System; Mechanical System and Instrument
System.
18.
The Ministry of Defence is
auctioning a ₹600 billion (US$8.9 billion) contract to design
and build a Fighting Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) in India. The contract will
be awarded in 2016.
19.
In February 2016, Lockheed Martin stated that it
was "ready to manufacture F-16 in India and support the Make in India
initiative", although it did not announce any time frame.
20.
Between September 2014 and November 2015, the
government received ₹1.20 lakh crore (US$18 billion) worth of
proposals from companies interested in manufacturing electronics in India.
21.
About 25% of smart phones shipped in the country in
the April–June quarter of 2015 were made in India, up from about 20% the
previous quarter.
22.
In 2015, India received US$63 billion in FDI.
Promotion
Campaign
1. "Zero Defect Zero Effect" is a slogan coined by Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi which
signifies production mechanisms wherein products have no defects and the
process through which product is made has zero adverse environmental and
ecological effects. The slogan also aims to prevent products developed
from India from being rejected by the global market.
3.
The week long multi-sectoral industrial event was
attended by 2500 international and 8000 domestic, foreign government
delegations from 68 countries and business teams from 72 countries. 17 Indian
states, mostly BJP-ruled, also held expos.
4.
At the close of the event, DIPP Secretary, Govt of
India stated that it had received over ₹15.2 lakh crore(US$230 billion)
worth of investment commitments and investment inquiries worth ₹1.5 lakh
crore (US$22 billion). Maharashtra led
all other states receiving ₹8 lakh crore (US$120 billion) of
investments.
5. Aarisa Pitha of Jharkhand, Gumla, Gushtaba
of Kashmir, Chicken Curry of Punjab, Khakhra and Khandvi of Gujarat, Bamboo Steam Fish, Vada and
Medhu Vada of Karnataka, Khaja and Inarsa of Bihar and Kebab of Uttar Pradesh and Puran poli of Maharashtra have been selected as
traditional regional food to be promoted in the campaign.
6. The 35th edition of the India International Trade Fair (IITF) held at Pragati
Maidan in November 2015, had Make in India as
its theme.
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