Every successful manufacturing nation has discovered one enduring truth: factories create ecosystems. Suppliers don't arrive first. Neither do research labs or globally competitive component industries. They emerge only after manufacturing achieves scale to make investment commercially viable.
That simple insight lies at the heart of India's new Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS). With a commitment of ₹62,500 cr and a 10-yr horizon, it's far more than an incentive programme. It's a statement of industrial strategy that recognises that in tech-intensive industries, competitiveness is built through sustained manufacturing, expanding exports and deep integration into GVCs. Higher domestic value addition follows naturally.
