New Delhi: In a bid to market ‘brand India’ in electronics, the government has proposed setting up a mission for creating a mechanism to implement various programmes laid down in National Policy of Electronics (NPE).
NPE, cleared by the Union Cabinet in October 2012, aims to make the domestic electronic hardware manufacturing segment into a $400 billion industry by 2020. Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said in Parliament that a National Electronics Mission is proposed to be set up with industry participation that will evolve programmes laid down under NPE.
“NPE proposes to set up National Electronics Mission with industry participation to evolve programmes in pursuit of the laid down policies and also to create institutional mechanism to advance the implementation of various programmes,” he said.
