{"id":1045548,"date":"2026-10-29T07:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045548"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:56:59","slug":"mobile-pli-scheme-generated-%e2%82%b925000-crore-in-direct-taxes-employs-12-lakh-people-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/29\/mobile-pli-scheme-generated-%e2%82%b925000-crore-in-direct-taxes-employs-12-lakh-people-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile PLI scheme generated \u20b925,000 crore in direct taxes, employs 12 lakh people: Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s mobile phone production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme has generated \u20b925,000 crore in direct tax collections against an incentive payout of \u20b919,000 crore, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, highlighting the financial returns and employment generated by India&#8217;s mobile manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Wednesday, Vaishnaw said the government had paid \u20b919,000 crore in incentives under the mobile PLI scheme, while direct tax collections stood at \u20b925,000 crore and Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections at \u20b93,000 crore. &#8220;Electronics manufacturing employs 25 Lakh people; mobile manufacturing alone employs 12 Lakh,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s mobile phone production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme has generated \u20b925,000 crore in direct tax collections against an incentive payout of \u20b919,000 crore, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, highlighting the financial returns and employment generated by India&#8217;s mobile manufacturing sector. In a post on X on Wednesday, Vaishnaw said the government had paid \u20b919,000 crore in incentives under the mobile PLI scheme, while direct tax collections stood at \u20b925,000 crore and Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections at \u20b93,000 crore. &#8220;Electronics manufacturing employs 25 Lakh people; mobile manufacturing alone employs 12 Lakh,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1045548","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\/1045548","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045554,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045548\/revisions\/1045554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}