New Delhi, July 23 -- India's mobile phone exports have surged 127 times in a decade and they grew from Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 2 lakh crore, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Jitin Prasada, informed Lok Sabha in a written reply Wednesday.

The minister attributed unprecedented mobile manufacturing growth to the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI).

During the past decade, mobile production in India witnessed 28-fold growth at Rs 5.45 lakh crore from Rs 18,000 crore.

Under the aegis of the National Policy on Electronics (NPE) 2019, MeitY had notified the Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing (LSEM) and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for IT Hardware. ...