File picture of employees at the assembly line at a mobile phone battery manufacturing plant in Noida
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Export of mobile phones from India increased by 127 times to reach ₹2 lakh crore in the last 10 financial years, Parliament was informed on Wednesday (July 23, 2025).
According to data shared by Minister of State for Electronics and IT Jitin Prasada in a written reply to Lok Sabha, the export of mobile phones “increased 127 times” from India from ₹1,500 crore in 2014-15 to ₹2 lakh crore in 2024-25.
“The PLI Scheme for LSEM has already attracted a cumulative investment of ₹12,390 crore, led to a cumulative production of ₹8,44,752 crore with exports of₹4,65,809 crore and generated additional employment of 1,30,330 (direct jobs) till June 2025,” the minister said.
The production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing was mainly meant for mobile phone manufacturing.
The minister said that 75% of the total mobile phone demand in the country was met through imports in 2014-15, which has now dropped to 0.02% in 2024-25.
“PLI Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing has significantly impacted the mobile manufacturing sector in India particularly in transforming India from a net importer to a net exporter of mobile phones. Bharat is now the second largest mobile manufacturing country in the world,” the Minister said.
Prasada said the PLI Scheme 2.0 for IT hardware has attracted a cumulative investment of ₹717.13 crore, led to a cumulative production of ₹12,195.84 crore and generated additional employment of 5,056 (direct jobs) till June.
“Total FDI in the field of electronics manufacturing in the last 5 years (i.e. since FY 2020-21) is $4,071 million, cumulative FDI of $2,802 million has been contributed by MeitY PLI beneficiaries,” the minister said.
Published – July 24, 2025 08:41 am IST
