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India’s elevators and escalators sector, among the world’s fastest-growing vertical mobility markets, is seeking a unified ‘One Nation, One Lift Law’ (ONOL) to amended safety, simplify regulations and alteration sustainable growth.
With yearly elevator income nearing 1 lakh units, driven by accelerated urbanisation and high-rise construction, the request for a nationalist model has go critical, manufacture executives said.
Today, elevators relationship for astir 97% of vertical mobility installations, with 65–70% request from residential existent estate, 25% from commercialized developments, and 10% from infrastructure projects including airports, metro stations, hospitals and nationalist buildings. However, fragmented authorities assistance laws proceed to make compliance inefficiencies, they added.
“The harmonisation of assistance rules into a azygous nationalist codification volition guarantee azygous information standards and faster adoption of caller technologies,” said Amit Gossain, MD, KONE Elevators and Chairman, Elevators & Escalators Division, IEEMA, successful a statement.
Industry leaders estimation that a nationalist assistance instrumentality could boost productivity by 20–25%, beforehand manufacturing localisation and heighten export competitiveness by aligning India with planetary standards. The determination would besides payment thousands of MSMEs and skilled workers crossed manufacturing, installation and attraction done azygous licensing and certification norms, they said.
Anita Raghunath, Director, Virgo Communications, which has scheduled to organise Smart Lift & Mobility World (SLMW) 2026, an manufacture amusement successful Bengaluru from 5 to 7 February 226, said, “The lawsuit volition service arsenic a collaborative level for shaping the aboriginal of vertical mobility. ‘One Nation, One Lift Law’ connects safety, municipality governance and concern growth.”
According to IMARC Group, India’s elevator and escalator marketplace stood astatine $ 14.6 cardinal successful 2024 and is projected to scope $22.2 cardinal by 2033, increasing astatine a CAGR of 4.3%.
“By 2030, implicit 40% of India’s colonisation volition unrecorded successful municipality areas, accelerating the request for robust vertical infrastructure,” said Nakul Gupta, Senior Consultant, IMARC Services.
“A nationalist assistance instrumentality volition simplify compliance, trim costs and guarantee accordant rider information crossed India,” said Krishnakumar Ravi, President & CEO, PAPL Corp.
