{"id":1038502,"date":"2026-09-25T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038502"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:40:10","slug":"india-has-smartphone-screen-protector-capacity-in-place-now-it-needs-to-shut-out-substandard-imports-meity-secy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/india-has-smartphone-screen-protector-capacity-in-place-now-it-needs-to-shut-out-substandard-imports-meity-secy\/","title":{"rendered":"India has smartphone screen protector capacity in place, now it needs to shut out substandard imports: MeitY Secy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has enough domestic capacity to make smartphone screen protectors and must ensure substandard imports do not undercut local manufacturers, Electronics and Information Technology Secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday, a day after the government brought the product under mandatory quality norms. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have enough production capacity in the country for this category of equipment,\u201d Krishnan said on the sidelines of the \u2018India 3.0: The Next Tech Leap\u2019 event in New Delhi. He said preventing the dumping of substandard products was important to protect the market for quality screen protectors made in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has enough domestic capacity to make smartphone screen protectors and must ensure substandard imports do not undercut local manufacturers, Electronics and Information Technology Secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday, a day after the government brought the product under mandatory quality norms. \u201cWe now have enough production capacity in the country for this category of equipment,\u201d Krishnan said on the sidelines of the \u2018India 3.0: The Next Tech Leap\u2019 event in New Delhi. He said preventing the dumping of substandard products was important to protect the market for quality screen protectors made in India.<\/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-1038502","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\/1038502","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=1038502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038509,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038502\/revisions\/1038509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}