{"id":1006825,"date":"2026-05-05T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006825"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:16:56","slug":"centre-eyeing-minimum-design-skills-target-for-component-scheme-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/05\/centre-eyeing-minimum-design-skills-target-for-component-scheme-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre eyeing minimum design skills target for component scheme companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government may introduce rules requiring companies operating under the Electronic Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) to commit a minimum level of investment in designing capability, officials told ET. <\/p>\n<p>Many companies in India&#8217;s electronics sector only assemble products. The government now wants them to get into the high-value design work, too. For this, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) expects ECMS participants to formally submit the number of designing talent they will employ as a share of their overall employee base, as well as proposed investments in raising designing capabilities over the project construction period and the first two years afterwards, the officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government may introduce rules requiring companies operating under the Electronic Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) to commit a minimum level of investment in designing capability, officials told ET. Many companies in India&#8217;s electronics sector only assemble products. The government now wants them to get into the high-value design work, too. For this, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) expects ECMS participants to formally submit the number of designing talent they will employ as a share of their overall employee base, as well as proposed investments in raising designing capabilities over the project construction period and the first two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}