Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said that Indian electronics manufacturers benefit from reliability and a respect for foreign firms’ intellectual property (IP) rights. “In the last ten years, production [of electronics] in India has increased five times, to ₹11 lakh crore,” Mr. Vaishnaw said.
The minister was in Manesar for much of the day to inaugurate the Surface Mount Technology (SMT) line of VVDN Technologies, a firm that works on assembly operations for products like servers, laptops, printed circuit boards, CCTV cameras, and printed circuit boards (PCBs). SMT is a technology to embed smaller components on PCBs. The firm has over 5,000 staff in Manesar to work on electronics manufacturing.
In India, “we have talent that can be used in design capabilities,” Mr. Vaishnaw said, pointing to VVDN’s workforce. “There are three levels of workforce required in electronics manufacturing,” the minister said: onsite workers who can be trained quickly from the ground up, precision tooling engineers, and finally, designing advanced components.
For the last bit, Mr. Vaishnaw said, electronic design automation (EDA) tools had been acquired by the government and given free of cost to 240 universities.
Published – April 18, 2025 08:11 pm IST