India may soon manufacture all the mobile phones it needs instead of importing: Report

India may soon produce locally all the mobile phones it will need instead of importing them. This rise in local manufacturing came with the first smartphone Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme announced in the financial year 2020-21, which was later ameded and extended to six years after most beneficiaries failed to meet first-year targets except for Samsung due to covid-related disruptions.