Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: India’s electronics manufacturing sector has created nearly 25 lakh jobs over the past decade, while production has increased almost seven-fold, underscoring the country’s emergence as a global manufacturing hub driven by the Make in India initiative, the Ministry of Electronics &; IT (MeitY) said on July 15.
The sector has become one of the fastest-growing sources of industrial employment, with the mobile manufacturing ecosystem alone supporting around 12 lakh direct and indirect jobs across the value chain, it added.
The MeitY said its flagship schemes have generated more than 5.3 lakh jobs, including around 1.8 lakh under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing and another 3.5 lakh through other major government initiatives.
Moreover, women have emerged as a key pillar of the sector’s growth.
They account for nearly 30 per cent of the workforce created in electronics manufacturing over the last decade, while in the mobile phone manufacturing segment they make up nearly 70 per cent of the direct workforce, making it one of India’s most women-intensive manufacturing industries.
The PLI scheme alone has created employment opportunities for around 90,000 women, strengthening female participation in formal manufacturing jobs.
At one of India’s largest electronics manufacturing campuses in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, thousands of young women are engaged in producing smartphones and electronic components for global markets.
