Ashwini Vaishnaw warns MeitY may stop approvals, disbursals under ECMS sans design capabilities

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday cautioned that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) may stop approving projects and financial disbursals under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) if the industry fails to develop indigenous design capabilities.

“We will have to build in-house design capabilities, and there is no way out of that. That is the learning curve we must climb, then only our country will become the hub of the entire electronics technology,” Vaishnaw said during a press conference on Monday, following the approval of new projects under ECMS entailing an investment of ₹7,104 crore.