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Mobile phone exports from India have increased 127 times in the last decade. Jitin Prasad, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, has given this information in a written reply in the Lok Sabha in the monsoon session of Parliament. According to the data given in the Parliament, the export of mobile phones from India was worth Rs 1500 crore in the year 2014-15 and in the last decade i.e. between 2014-15 to 2024-25, this export has reached Rs 2 lakh crore. The minister told Parliament that India has increased mobile phone exports by 127 times.

Union Minister of State Jitin Prasad, in his reply, said, ‘The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing has already attracted cumulative investment of Rs 12,390 crore, leading to cumulative production of Rs 8,44,752 crore with exports worth Rs 4,65,809 crore. This scheme has created 1,30,330 new employment opportunities by June 2025. ‘

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What is PLI scheme?

Let us tell you that Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing is a scheme of the Government of India. The objective of this scheme is to promote electronics production. This scheme promotes production of electronic products like mobile phones, laptops on a large scale. This scheme was mainly for the production of mobile phones.

What did Jitin Prasad tell?

Union Minister of State Jitin Prasad said in his reply, ‘In the year 2014-15, 75 percent of the demand for mobile phones across the country was met through imports. This import has reduced to 0.2 percent in the year 2024-25. Jitin Prasad also said that the Production Linked Incentive Scheme was started for large scale electronics production. This scheme has impacted mobile production in India in a big way.

He said, ‘This scheme has played an important role in bringing India from being an importer of mobile phones to a major exporter. India is now the second largest country in the world in mobile manufacturing.

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Investment increased through PLI

The Union Minister said the Production Linked Incentive Scheme 2.0 for IT Hardware has attracted cumulative investment of Rs 717.13 crore, leading to cumulative production of Rs 12,195.84 crore and the scheme has created 5,056 direct jobs by June 2025.

A total of US $ 4,071 million foreign investment (FDI) has come into the electronics manufacturing sector in the last five years. Of this, US$2,802 million has been invested by the beneficiaries of the MEITY PLI scheme.