{"id":1021388,"date":"2026-07-16T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021388"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:51:28","slug":"rs-1-9-trillion-chip-mobile-push-gets-cabinet-approval-to-boost-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/rs-1-9-trillion-chip-mobile-push-gets-cabinet-approval-to-boost-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 1.9-trillion chip, mobile push gets cabinet approval to boost manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved two major manufacturing initiatives with a combined outlay of nearly \u20b91.9 lakh crore (trillion) to expand India\u2019s semiconductor ecosystem, scale up mobile phone production and strengthen its position as a global electronics manufacturing hub. <\/p>\n<p>The government approved the \u20b91.27-lakh-crore ($14.6 billion) Semicon 2.0 programme to accelerate semiconductor design and manufacturing capabilities, alongside the \u20b962,500-crore mobile phone manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) aimed at increasing domestic production, boosting exports and deepening local value addition in the mobile phone industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved two major manufacturing initiatives with a combined outlay of nearly \u20b91.9 lakh crore (trillion) to expand India\u2019s semiconductor ecosystem, scale up mobile phone production and strengthen its position as a global electronics manufacturing hub. The government approved the \u20b91.27-lakh-crore ($14.6 billion) Semicon 2.0 programme to accelerate semiconductor design and manufacturing capabilities, alongside the \u20b962,500-crore mobile phone manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) aimed at increasing domestic production, boosting exports and deepening local value addition in the mobile phone industry.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021388","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=1021388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021404,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021388\/revisions\/1021404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}