Ambition to reality

Govt's high expectations from electronics exports need work

On Monday, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released a further instalment of its vision document for electronics manufacturing and export in India, which purports to set out “detail targets and [a] roadmap for India’s transformation into a $300 billion electronics manufacturing powerhouse by 2026”. There are several aspects of this document that are of great interest. One is that it has been built from the ground up in co-operation with the India Cellular and Electronics Association, which the government says “presents an excellent example of government-industry effort[s] in goal-setting”. The second point of note is that it