The govt is going all out to push its ambitious production-linked investment scheme to help Indian manufacturing scale up and make India an export hub
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The government is considering launching a production linked incentive (PLI) scheme in the chemical sector to boost domestic manufacturing and exports. Addressing a webinar on 'Implementation Strategy of Budget Announcement 2021-22', Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Friday said the government is working on a consultative approach in forming the policies for India's chemicals and petrochemicals sector. The webinar was organised by the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals and FICCI. "Implementations of the Budget announcements cannot be done only by the government. "We should take our industry in confidence so that implementations can start from first week of April. The challenge for the government is to now match the suggestions of the industry with the implementation part, he was quoted as saying in a FICCI statement. Gowda said the Budget has provided a boost to the Indian pharmaceutical sector. The big push for the pharma sector is being seen as an .
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Modi on Friday said PLI scheme, which is aimed at boosting domestic manufacturing and exports, is expected to increase the country's production by $520 billion in the next five years
The recently announced PLI scheme for the telecom sector extended the incentives to MSMEs.
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Top executives from telecom, electronics, food processing, pharmaceuticals, steel, and textiles will interact with the PM on Friday via video conferencing
The government will soon come out with detailed scheme to offer production linked incentive (PLI) to automobile and auto components industry
16 schemes from equal numbers of companies have been approved to boost local production, value addition and, consequently, export of mobile phones.
Among individual stocks, Lupin zoomed 3.4 per cent in the intra-day trade and hit a high of Rs 1,060, Sun Pharmaceuticals advanced 2 per cent, and Dr Reddy's Labs gained 1.7 per cent.
Lenovo India has said it would like to increase its laptop-making capacity by 10x at its Puducherry plant and also manufacture tablets
Telecom gear makers will need to achieve at least 3 times higher value in sales compared to the investment they are required to make in their plant, other than land and building
B R Sikri, chairman of the Federation of Pharma Entrepreneurs, said, higher incentives would have meant more production of cancer drugs, thereby, bringing down their prices
Pharma scheme aims at Rs 3 trillion incremental sales, 100,000 jobs; experts say hardware scheme to help India become electronics manufacturing hub for the world
The union cabinet approved production-linked incentive scheme for IT hardware products; NSE suffered an outage earlier in the day due to technical glitches
Cabinet clears Production Linked Incentive scheme to boost manufacturing of laptops, tablets, PCs, servers, says Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
Total imports from China at $58.7 billion were more than India's combined purchases from the US and the UAE