New Delhi, April 22 -- The federal policy think tank Niti Aayog on Tuesday laid down a road map to increase India's exports of hand and power tools to over $25 billion by 2035 from $1 billion in 2025.

The plan proposed by Niti Aayog and the Foundation for Economic Development (FED) involves creating manufacturing clusters for such tools across the country, bolstered by a cumulative Rs.57,000 crore investment by government and industry, as per a Niti Aayog press statement.

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