India has to engage with both foreign tech and indigenous: Piyush Goyal

The electronics manufacturing industry has pushed for more coverage of incentives and higher tariffs on foreign goods

At a meeting with the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ECS India), Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that while domestic electronics makers would need to ramp up indigenous research in technology, India would also have to invite technology from abroad as investments. 

Faced with repeated demands for increasing import duties on electronics and increasing export benefits, Goyal stressed that government incentives in the sector, such as the Production-Linked Incentive for Electronics Manufacturing scheme will ultimately have to lead industry to become self-sufficient. While calling upon the electronics hardware sector to use the route of innovation, R&D