The Government will meet CEOs and topbrass of electronics and smartphone makers, including Apple and Samsung,on September 16 to discuss challenges being faced by them and incentivesand schemes that can be offered to position India as the ‘electronicsfactory’ of the world.
The meeting comes at a time when India has set its sight on creatinga $400 billion (around Rs 28.43 lakh crore) electronic manufacturingecosystem by 2025.
The meeting called by Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi ShankarPrasad is expected to see participation of leading players like Vivo,Oppo, Qualcomm, Xiaomi, Dell, HP, Bosch, Cisco, Flextronics, Foxconn,Nokia, LG, and Panasonic. Other participants include Intel, Wistron,and Sterlite Technologies.
The meeting would be represented by all major verticals of electronicssector such as mobile handsets, consumer electronics and strategic electronics.