{"id":1021308,"date":"2026-07-16T08:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021308"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:37:47","slug":"india-approves-rs-62500-crore-mobile-phone-manufacturing-scheme-mpms-to-boost-exports-and-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/india-approves-rs-62500-crore-mobile-phone-manufacturing-scheme-mpms-to-boost-exports-and-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"India approves Rs 62,500 crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) to boost exports and jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The union cabinet on Wednesday approved a Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) with an outlay of Rs 62,500 crore for a period of five years. <\/p>\n<p>Union minister of electronics and information technology, Ashwani Vaishnaw in a cabinet briefing said the scheme will disburse incentives based on domestic sourcing, and design and R&amp;D by Indian brands. The scheme will also have incentives for export of smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The union cabinet on Wednesday approved a Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) with an outlay of Rs 62,500 crore for a period of five years. Union minister of electronics and information technology, Ashwani Vaishnaw in a cabinet briefing said the scheme will disburse incentives based on domestic sourcing, and design and R&amp;D by Indian brands. The scheme will also have incentives for export of smartphones.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021308","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=1021308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021319,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021308\/revisions\/1021319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}