Dialling Up a Nation: How the mobile PLI scheme rewired Indian manufacturing and redrew global supply chains

Six years ago, India was a big buyer of phones. Today it is one of the world’s biggest makers, and a trusted alternative in a world reshaping its supply chains. Pick up a phone in an Indian shop a decade ago and turn it over. The fine print told the same story: designed elsewhere, built elsewhere, shipped here. In 2014-15, India exported mobile phones worth about Rs 1,500 crore. In the year that ended this March, smartphones worth roughly Rs 2.6 lakh crore left Indian shores. Much of that leap t

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