{"id":1035378,"date":"2026-09-15T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035378"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:55:24","slug":"india-assembles-99-of-its-phones-locally-can-this-scheme-take-value-addition-to-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/india-assembles-99-of-its-phones-locally-can-this-scheme-take-value-addition-to-50\/","title":{"rendered":"India assembles 99% of its phones locally: Can this scheme take value addition to 50%?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has emerged as a major mobile-phone assembly hub, but the next phase of its electronics manufacturing push will depend on how many of the components inside those phones can be made locally, brokerage firm Jefferies reported. The government\u2019s Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) aims to close that gap. <\/p>\n<p>According to Jefferies, India assembles around 99% of the mobile phones sold domestically. Yet, domestic value addition remains below 20%. The brokerage expects the ECMS to potentially raise the share of the mobile phone Bill of Materials (BoM) covered by locally manufactured components to around 50% by FY32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has emerged as a major mobile-phone assembly hub, but the next phase of its electronics manufacturing push will depend on how many of the components inside those phones can be made locally, brokerage firm Jefferies reported. The government\u2019s Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) aims to close that gap. According to Jefferies, India assembles around 99% of the mobile phones sold domestically. Yet, domestic value addition remains below 20%. The brokerage expects the ECMS to potentially raise the share of the mobile phone Bill of Materials (BoM) covered by locally manufactured components to around 50% by FY32.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035378","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=1035378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035381,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035378\/revisions\/1035381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}