Lok Sabha Question No. 930 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-08
Subject: PLI Scheme for ICT Investment and Production
Ministry: ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Asked by: P. Velusamy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 930

TO BE ANSWERED ON: 08.02.2023

## PLI SCHEME FOR ICT INVESTMENT AND PRODUCTION

## 930.      SHRI VELUSAMY P.:

Will the Minister of ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  Tamil  Nadu  has  been  among  the  top  three States in terms of ICT investments and production and emerged as a hub for software, hardware and R & D information which has been a major growth driven for Indian economy;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  of  the  amount  released  under  PLI  (Production  Linked  Insurance) scheme including the number of beneficiaries therefrom;
- (c) whether  the  Government  is  having  any  special  package  for  Tamil  Nadu  software industry; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

- (a) and (b):  Electronics Industry post 2014due to various policies of government of India has  shown  accelerated  growth  in  production,  employment  generation  and  investments. MSIPS,SPECS and PLI are some of the schemes that have contributed to rise in electronics production and making India as electronics manufacturing hub for world.

Several  large-scale  investments  are  being  made  by  foreign  and  domestic  companies  as  a consequence of these policies and state of Tamil Nadu is one of the leading beneficiaries of this  as  several  investments  are  located  here.  The  electronics  manufacturing  ecosystem  in Tamil Nadu also contributing towards development of electronics manufacturing and design ecosystem  in  the  country,  this  includes  mobile  phones,  industrial  electronics,  computer hardware, etc.

There are several applicants under the PLI Scheme from the state of Tamil Nadu. Out of these  applicants,  INR  357.17  Crore  of  incentive  has  been  disbursed  to  Foxconn  Hon  Hai Technology India Mega Development Private Limited under the PLI scheme for LSEM. The list of companies under the PLI Schemes in Tamil Nadu is as follows:

|   S. No. | Name of Company                                                   | PLI Scheme                 |
|----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|        1 | Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development Private Limited | PLI Scheme for LSEM        |
|        2 | Rising Stars Mobile India Pvt Ltd.                                | PLI Scheme for LSEM        |
|        3 | Pegatron Technology India Pvt Ltd.                                | PLI Scheme for LSEM        |
|        4 | Ascent Circuits Pvt Ltd.                                          | PLI Scheme for LSEM        |
|        5 | Dell International Services India Private Ltd.                    | PLI Scheme for IT Hardware |
|        6 | Rising Stars Hi-Tech Pvt. Ltd.                                    | PLI Scheme for IT Hardware |
|        7 | Flextronics Technologies (India) Pvt. Ltd.                        | PLI Scheme for IT Hardware |

(c) and  (d):    The  government  of  India  is  promoting  the  software  industry  in  Tamil  Nadu through various programmes such as the Software Technology Park of India (STPI), Centre of Excellence in FinTech (FinBlue), iTamil Nadu Technology Hub (iTNT Hub) etc. These programmes offer access  to  plug-and-play  co-working  space,  mentorship,  venture  capital network etc for nurturing deep / emerging tech innovation ecosystem in Tamil Nadu.

MeitY has contributed INR 27 crore out of INR 54.61 crore for iTamil Nadu Technology (iTNT)  Hub  located  in  Chennai  at  Anna  University  Campus  to  nurture  the  deep  tech innovation  ecosystem  in  Tamil  Nadu.  iTNT  Hub  will  guide,  develop,  implement  and support startups, especially in a scaling-up phase in deep tech. In addition to that start-ups shall  also  be  supported  in  the  hub  and  spoke  model  and  provided  acceleration  and infrastructural service.

-  The CoE on FinTechat STPI Chennai is to provide infrastructure, resources, coaching/ mentorship,  technology  support  and  funding  to  emerging  start-ups  in  the  FinTech sector.  The  FinTech  CoE  has  been  established  through  a  collaborative  approach including M/s intellect design as industrial partner, NPCI, UIDAI and Partner Banks as Yes Bank, PayPal, HSBC, IIT Chennai as knowledge partner and TiE Chennai to provide industrial connect. The project aims to support 58 start-ups over a period of 5 years.

MeitY has also initiated major research & development projects including development  of  multi-core  indigenous  microprocessor;  development  of  sub-system for  electric  vehicle;  solutions  for  Intelligent  Transportation  system;  Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits; Next Generation  AMOLED Displays, OLED Lighting and OPV products at IIT, Madras.

-  A Centre for Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems (CPPICS) has been established at IIT Madras in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode by MeitY for the  development  of  silicon  photonic  chips  based  on  Field  Programmable  Photonic Gate Array (FPPGA) core technology. This core technology will be utilized in many advanced manufacturing sectors such as Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, RF Photonics etc. The program is supporting technology development, the building of an International R&D consortium, R&D as service and commercialization & manufacturing in India.
-  The  project  'Next  Generation  AMOLED  Displays,  OLED  Lighting  and  OPV products: Development of disruptive Technologies to enable cost effective electronic component  manufacturing  in  India'  is  being  implemented  by  IIT,  Madras  with objective to demonstrate state-of-the-art AMOLED based displays developed by Fine Metal Mask (FMM) and Closed Space Sublimation (CSS) processes. OPV devices are also being developed for roll to roll manufacturing.
-  A state-of-the-art nano electronics Centre has been set up at IIT, Madras for carrying out transnational research in Nano Electronics area. The major initiatives and schemes of the Government in the Electronics and IT sector are  pan-India  initiatives  to  make  the  country  a  global  manufacturing  hub  for electronics and IT sector. So any State/UT including Tamil Nadu can avail the similar benefits under MeitY's initiative.

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