The next time you upgrade your mobile phone or television set, you’d do well to remember that its display unit wouldn’t have been fabricated in India.
This matters because it is a huge missing piece in the government’s ₹75,000 crore semiconductor incentive scheme. While the scheme has cleared complex projects straddling silicon and compound fabrication plants for wafers, as well as units that package, test and turn the wafers into chips, there is one key area it has failed to deliver on — a promise to set up two display fabrication units (where none exists today).
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