Design In India: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has already held a couple of meetings with industry bodies such as the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) that counts Apple among other global electronics giants as its members, a senior government official said.
Electronics Manufacturing: Task force plans validation centers for startups and MSMEs to meet global standards. Global certification agencies may establish units in India for feedback. Committee includes industry executives and government officials.
MeitY: "We need to recognize that these are parts of global value chains. No country in the world, not even China has more than about 40 to 45 per cent of that value chain embedded within the country," Krishnan said.
Indigenous Chips: According to Chandrasekhar, the DIR-V programme is playing a pivotal role in realising the vision laid by Prime Minister Naremdra Modi to create and adopt open-source technologies.
The survey would include details such as the average ticket size of payments made through UPI, the geographies in which the adoption of digital payment methods such as UPI is higher and whether people feel safer when making payments through UPI.