Cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba to check progress of PLI schemes this week

The scheme also aims at making domestic manufacturing globally competitive, create jobs, and boost exports.

An empowered group of secretaries, headed by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, will conduct meetings over the next one week to review the progress of production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes that have been approved and notified over the past one year, for sectors such as pharmaceutical, electronics, telecommunications, among others.

“Officials will be closely looking at where we stand as far as the implementation of the PLI scheme is concerned. The number of applications for the scheme announced for the respective sectors could also be discussed,” said a senior official.

The PLI scheme was announced last year, with India trying to diversify supply chains