{"id":1047717,"date":"2026-11-07T07:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047717"},"modified":"2026-11-07T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T02:29:13","slug":"want-only-serious-players-no-place-for-frivolous-applicants-in-semicon-2-0-vaishnaw-to-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/07\/want-only-serious-players-no-place-for-frivolous-applicants-in-semicon-2-0-vaishnaw-to-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Want only serious players, no place for frivolous applicants in Semicon 2.0: Vaishnaw to industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the government&#8217;s semiconductor programme, as well as manufacturing schemes for components and mobile phones are meant only for serious, technologically capable players and that there is no place for &#8220;frivolous&#8221; applicants. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want placeholders,&#8221; Vaishnaw said in a strong message to the industry, and added that he had asked IT Secretary to remove 18-19 non-serious players from the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) list as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the government&#8217;s semiconductor programme, as well as manufacturing schemes for components and mobile phones are meant only for serious, technologically capable players and that there is no place for &#8220;frivolous&#8221; applicants. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want placeholders,&#8221; Vaishnaw said in a strong message to the industry, and added that he had asked IT Secretary to remove 18-19 non-serious players from the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) list as well.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047717","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=1047717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047718,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047717\/revisions\/1047718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}