Mobile PLI may be extended beyond 2026

Smartphone PLI (production-linked incentive), the most successful of all 14 such schemes, may be extended by a couple of years beyond 2025-26 when it officially ends.

The five-year PLI scheme, which started in 2020 ends in 2026, and each company has the flexibility to choose any five consecutive years. While Apple has chosen the period of 2021-2026, for Samsung it’s between 2020-2025.