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Karnataka’s Large and Medium Industries Minister M. B. Patil connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) instructed his officials to hole a imaginativeness papers aimed astatine boosting mobile and physics merchandise manufacturing and plan successful the State, with the extremity of attracting investments of $150 billion.
Mr. Patil said Karnataka has important imaginable not lone successful mobile-phone components but besides successful concern and strategical electronics. The curate has asked his officials to survey the Union Government’s strategy on with akin policies implemented by different States.
He met a high-level delegation, led by Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman of the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) and had an extended treatment connected these lines. The curate noted that the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT had announced an electronics components manufacturing scheme successful April this twelvemonth and the State Government was exploring the anticipation of introducing a parallel strategy and his squad was presently studying its feasibility.
“The connection is inactive successful the draught stage, and we invited suggestions from ICEA,” helium told the delegation.
In response, Mr. Mohindroo said the Union authorities strategy prioritised sub-assemblies specified arsenic displays and camera modules, bare components, and indispensable manufacturing equipment. The programme besides offered performance-linked incentives and up to 25% superior subsidy. The Centre has earmarked ₹22,900 crore for the scheme, helium further said.
According to Mohindroo, until November, the Union Government has cleared 17 concern proposals worthy ₹7,172 crore. These projects are expected to make 11,800 nonstop jobs and make products valued astatine implicit ₹65,000 crore.
The gathering was attended by Industries Department Principal Secretary S. Selvakumar, Industries Commissioner Gunjan Krishna, and different elder officials.
