India, Jan. 8 -- India's telecom manufacturing ambitions are being shaped by a decade-long continuum of policy initiatives that began with the Make in India programme and have since evolved through production-linked incentives (PLI) and the more recent electronics component-focused schemes. Industry leaders say this consistency has been central to building confidence across both global and domestic value chains.

Over the past 11 years, the Government of India has steadily broadened its manufacturing framework. Initial efforts focused on encouraging domestic production under Make in India, followed by the introduction of PLI schemes that helped accelerate scale across electronics, telecom equipment and consumer devices. The latest additio...