Govt initiates exercise to update 'Make in India' action plan

Government has initiated an exercise to revise the 'Make in India' action plan, a top official said today.
Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secretary Ramesh Abhishek said that the commerce and industry ministry has reviewed the action plan with all departments and has also discussed it with all stakeholders, including industry associations.
Based on the meetings, "now we have a tentative revised plan which has been now proposed to various ministries and departments. We have requested them to examine the inputs received from the industry", he said.
"We have requested them to see whether, how and in what manner these Make in India action plans can be revised. We have also decided to do a kind of reality check on what has been achieved so far in the last two years," he told reporters here.

The 'Make in India' programme was launched in September 2014 with an aim to make the country a global manufacturing hub and attract investments. In December 2014, the government came out with short and medium term action plans for all 25 thrust sectors under the programme.
"Since then we have been reviewing regularly the progress made and in the last three months, we have reviewed this again with all the ministries and department concerned," he said.

He added that the DIPP has also started a dashboard from April 1 in which monitoring is being done by the department concerned.
"They are uploading their progress on this and we are getting now the real time information about the achievements of the departments against their short term as well as their medium term targets and goals of the Make in India programme," he added.

He said that in the last three months "we have been reviewing with all the departments, not only what has done so far but also what more needs to be done because as the plans were made in December 2014, naturally there are many things that needs to be done".
Many of the action plans have already been achieved, he added.
Further he said that the DIPP has prepared a document compiling the progress under Make in India initiative.
To start with, he said, today the DIPP is releasing the document of the food processing sector and "we are doing this exercise for all the sectors and the work is in progress".

The 25 key sectors identified under the programme include automobiles, auto components, bio-technology, chemicals, defence manufacturing, electronic systems, food processing, leather, mining, oil & gas, ports, railways, ports and textile.