Electronics manufacturing sector is poised to become a major focus area for business and generation of employment in Uttar Pradesh and the state government has chalked out a comprehensive plan in this regard.
The Uttar Pradesh government’s Electronic Manufacturing Policy- 2020 has evoked enthusiastic response based on which the government has set an investment target of Rs 40,000 crore and creation of over four lakh jobs in the sector during the next five years. This will be the biggest employment generation endeavour in any single department so far. Under the policy, a plan is afoot to set up medical electronics manufacturing clusters in Lucknow, Unnao and Kanpur keeping in view the requirements during COVID-19 crisis.
A Center of Excellence will be set up in Noida in collaboration with ICEA and Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, under the UP Electronics Manufacturing Policy-2020. This will act as a research and development centre. Instead of importing, these products will be manufactured in India itself.
Besides, work has been started for establishing an Electronic City near Jewar airport on Yamuna Expressway as well as Defence Electronics Manufacturing Cluster in Bundelkhand.
Under the UP Electronics Manufacturing Policy-2017, the state government has achieved the target of investing Rs 20,000 crore in electronics manufacturing in five years. Moreover, the Yogi Adityanath government has also fulfilled the goal of providing employment to at least 3,00,000 people by 2022 in just three years of its tenure .The state government is working on a new electronics manufacturing policy to provide employment to four lakh youth in the next five years.