India expects to create 37,500 direct jobs and another 112,000 indirect hires via applications already received under its Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme to encourage manufacturing in India. Dell, based in Texas, and Flex, a Singapore Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) company with the bulk of its executive staff based in California, are among the 19 companies that have committed to participate in this new initiative.
According to a news release, 14 Indian companies will participate: Dixon, Infopower (JV of Sahasra and MiTAC), Bhagwati (Micromax), Syrma, Orbic, Neolync, Optiemus, Netweb, VVDN, Smile Electronics, Panache Digilife, HLBS, RDP Workstations and Coconics. Foreign companies include ICT (Wistron), Rising Stars Hi-Tech (Foxconn) and Lava. Wistron and Foxconn are major Taiwanese ODM companies and have tight relationships with Apple Inc., of Cupertino, California.
The PLI Scheme extends an incentive of 4% to 2%/ 1% on net incremental sales (over base year of FY 2019-20) of goods under target segments that are manufactured in India to eligible companies, for a period of four years.
The target IT hardware segments under the proposed Scheme include laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers (PCs) and servers. The scheme proposes production-linked incentives to boost domestic manufacturing and attract large investments in the value chain of these IT hardware products. Over the next 4 years, the Scheme is expected to lead to total production of $1 Billion and more than 37% will be contributed by exports. The Scheme will bring an additional investment in electronics manufacturing of about $400 million.
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
