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New Delhi, Dec 29 (PTI) Government has set up a joint task force, which will include industry

representatives from Samsung, Microsoft Devices and Lava, to rejuvenate nation's mobile phone

manufacturing ecosystem with a view to achieve production of 500 million units of mobile handsets by

2019.

Industry body Indian Cellular Association (ICA) National President Pankaj Mohindroo has been appointed

as Chairman of the task force. . Nokia SEZ President and Director - IndiaOperations Josh Foulger has

been made co-chairman along with Lava Co-Founder Hari Om Rai.

Samsung India Managing Director BD Park, Sony India Kenichiro Hibi, Microsoft Devices Director for

Government relations Sandeep Bhargava, LG India MD Soon H Kwon, Micromax Informatics Co-founder

Vikas Jain are also on board as members of the task force.

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology(DEITY) Directors SK Marwah and Asha

Nangia will represent government in this task force.

In an office memorandum, DEITY has announced setting up of a 'Fast Track task Force' to "re-establish

and catalyse significant growth in mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-system in India."

As per the office memorandum, the terms of reference of the task force includes promotion of "large scale

manufacturing/assembly activity to achieve production of 500 million units of mobile handsets by 2019 i.E.

Annual manufacturing output of Rs 150,000 crore to 300,000 crore."

It is estimated that this large scale production can create employment opportunity for 15 lakh people.

ICA in its budget recommendation has said that in absence of corrective measures, mobile exports from

India will crash to zero in 2015.

Mobile market in India is estimated to grown by 32 per cent or to USD 12 billion in 2014 but imports

account for three-quarters of the market. Domestic production fell by 29 per cent in the year mainly due to

suspension of production at Nokia plant.

Finland-based Nokia sold its worldwide handset business for USD 7.2 billion to Microsoft, but its

Sriperumbudur plant was left out of the deal due to tax issues faced by Nokia India. The factory,

considered to be among the largest for the company, stopped production from November.

Exports of mobile phones have been declining after touching a peak level of Rs 12,000 crore in 2012.

Mobile exports crashed by 70 per cent from Rs 11,850 crore in 2013 to Rs 2,450 crore in 2014. They are

estimated to be nil next year in absence of corrective measures, an ICA report has said.

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Govt sets up joint task force to boost mobile manufacturing Press Trust of India | New Delhi December 29, 2014 Last Updated at 18:00 IST

Government has set up a joint task force, which will include industry representatives from

Samsung, Microsoft Devices and Lava, to rejuvenate nation's mobile phone manufacturing

ecosystem with a view to achieve production of 500 million units of mobile handsets by 2019.

Industry body Indian Cellular Association (ICA) National President Pankaj Mohindroo has been

appointed as Chairman of the task force. Nokia SEZ President and Director - IndiaOperations

Josh Foulger has been made co-chairman along with Lava Co-Founder Hari Om Rai.

Samsung India Managing Director BD Park, Sony India Kenichiro Hibi, Microsoft Devices

Director for Government relations Sandeep Bhargava, LG India MD Soon H Kwon, Micromax

Informatics Co-founder Vikas Jain are also on board as members of the task force.

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology(DEITY) Directors SK Marwah and

Asha Nangia will represent government in this task force.

In an office memorandum, DEITY has announced setting up of a 'Fast Track task Force' to "re-

establish and catalyse significant growth in mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-

system in India."

As per the office memorandum, the terms of reference of the task force includes promotion of

"large scale manufacturing/assembly activity to achieve production of 500 million units of mobile

handsets by 2019 i.E. Annual manufacturing output of Rs 150,000 crore to 300,000 crore."

It is estimated that this large scale production can create employment opportunity for 15 lakh

people.

ICA in its budget recommendation has said that in absence of corrective measures, mobile

exports from India will crash to zero in 2015.

Mobile market in India is estimated to grown by 32 per cent or to USD 12 billion in 2014 but

imports account for three-quarters of the market. Domestic production fell by 29 per cent in the

year mainly due to suspension of production at Nokia plant.

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Finland-based Nokia sold its worldwide handset business for USD 7.2 billion to Microsoft, but its

Sriperumbudur plant was left out of the deal due to tax issues faced by Nokia India. The factory,

considered to be among the largest for the company, stopped production from November.

Exports of mobile phones have been declining after touching a peak level of Rs 12,000 crore in

2012.

Mobile exports crashed by 70 per cent from Rs 11,850 crore in 2013 to Rs 2,450 crore in 2014.

They are estimated to be nil next year in absence of corrective measures, an ICA report has

said.


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Government task force to nurture local mobile companies growth By Gulveen Aulakh | 22 December 2014, 1:01 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The government has constituted a 14-member task force to catalyse the growth of mobile phone and component manufacturing ecosystem in India, which is on a downward spiral, with the aim of providing much-needed impetus to Delhi's 'Make in India' plans. The panel, which includes representatives from the department of electronics and IT (Deity) and heads of leading local and international mobile phone companies operating in India, has been assigned a 20-point agenda to promote local manufacturing of mobile phones, according to internal ministry documents dated December 8, reviewed by ET. The committee will have to create a viable roadmap and vision document that broadly outlines investment targets into this sector over five years till 2019. The panel's recommendations will include technology and demand forecasts aligned with potential landscape of the industry over this period. It will come up with a preliminary report within eight weeks of its first meeting, the date of which is not known yet. Top smartphone makers Samsung India, Micromax, Lava and Karbonn, which hold more than half the market, will be part of the task force along with upcoming players like Sony, LG and Microsoft, which will be headed by Indian Cellular Association's president Pankaj Mohindroo,

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the documents showed. The seven-month old government has set an aim to achieve production of 500 million mobile phones by 2019 and an annual manufacturing output of Rs 150,000 crore to Rs 300,000 crore, roughly a quarter of the world's handset manufacturing. In the same time frame, a turnover target of Rs 50,000 crore for the component making industry has been set. The panel will also recommend possible measures for creating intellectual property and promote innovation in the sector and increase exports from India to 120 million mobile phone units by 2019 from the present level of 30 million. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an ambitious project to make India a manufacturing hub of electronics, beginning with mobile phones, which will help boost growth and employment, besides making India less dependent on imports that are set to rise to $400 billion, surpassing oil, by 2020. The government recently said that the country imported telecom products worth Rs 69,516.37 crore in 2013-14 while exports of such items were at Rs 20,475.17 crore during the year, leaving a significant deficit of Rs 49,041.20 crore. Moreover, production of mobile handsets in the country is projected to be down by more than half even as import of handsets is expected to rise by over 18% in 2014. The task force will also give recommendations to provide enabling business environment, policy standardisations and rational duty structure among other critical areas such as skill development and generating employment opportunity for 1.5 million people.


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mobile manufacturing (13:20) By Aparajita Gupta

New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further,

the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast

Track Task Force to re-establish growth in the country's mobile handset and component

manufacturing eco-system.

"The task force will be meeting the Department of Electronics and Information

Technology secretary (RS Sharma) in the first week of January," Pankaj Mohindroo,

national president, Indian Cellular Association, told IANS. Sharma is also the chairman

of the task force.

"(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale manufacturing/assembling activity to

achieve production of 500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment

opportunities for 1.5 million approximately," a note issued by the department said.

It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to

120 million units by 2019.

India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013.

The value of exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013.

Industry stakeholders say at this rate, handset exports will crash to zero in 2015.

"Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers,

brands, ODMs (original design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing

services) to request them to come and set up shop in India. The government has to

provide a level playing fields to those players," Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks,

adding that promoting manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of

mobile handsets and they will come down.

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In India, Samsung and Micromax currently engage in the large-scale manufacturing of

handsets. Nokia operated the world's largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in

Tamil Nadu which was shut down in November on tax and labour issues.

All the other players import their products mostly from China, followed by Vietnam.

The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs 75,000 crore ($12 billion) in

2014, of which handsets worth Rs 58,550 crore are imported.

For 2015, the estimated market size is Rs 1 lakh crore, with imports accounting for Rs

75,500 crore.

The taskforce has to create a roadmap to align technology, demand, standards and

regulations for enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing across the

supply chain for manufacturing mobile phone.


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Government sets up task force to revive domestic mobile manufacturing IANS | Jan 1, 2015, 06.05PM IST

NEW DELHI: Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of

Electronics and Information Technology ( DeitY) has formed a task force to revive growth of

the country's mobile handset and component manufacturing industry.

"The task force will be meeting the Department of Electronics and Information Technology

secretary (RS Sharma) in the first week of January," Pankaj Mohindroo, national president,

Indian Cellular Association, told IANS. Sharma is also the chairman of the task force.

"(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale manufacturing/assembling activity to achieve

production of 500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment

opportunities for 1.5 million approximately," a note issued by the department said.

It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to 120

million units by 2019.

India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013.

The value of exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013.


"Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands,

ODMs (original design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to

request them to come and set up shop in India. The government has to provide a level

playing fields to those players," Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks, adding

that promoting manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of mobile

handsets and they will come down.




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handsets. Nokia operated the world's largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in

Tamil Nadu which was shut down in November on tax and labour issues.


The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs 75,000 crore ($12 billion) in

2014, of which handsets worth Rs 58,550 crore are imported.

For 2015, the estimated market size is Rs 1 lakh crore, with imports accounting for Rs

75,500 crore.

The taskforce has to create a roadmap to align technology, demand, standards and

regulations for enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing across the supply

chain for manufacturing mobile phone.


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Government sets up task force to revive domestic mobile manufacturing IANS | New Delhi January 1, 2015 Last Updated at 13:20 IST

Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of Electronics

and Information Technology(DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task Force to re-establish growth in the

country's mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-system.

"The task force will be meeting the Department of Electronics and Information Technology secretary

(R.S.Sharma) in the first week of January," Pankaj Mohindroo, national president, Indian Cellular

Association, told IANS. Sharma is also the chairman of the task force.


production of 500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5

million approximately," a note issued by the department said.

It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to 120 million

units by 2019.

India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value

of exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013.


"Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands, ODMs

(original design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to request them to

come and set up shop in India. The government has to provide a level playing fields to those

players," Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks, adding that

promoting manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of mobile handsets and they

will come down.

In India, Samsung and Micromax currently engage in the large-scale manufacturing of handsets.

Nokia operated the world's largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu which was

shut down in November on tax and labour issues.

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The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs.75,000 crore ($12 billion) in 2014, of

which handsets worth Rs.58,550 crore are imported.

For 2015, the estimated market size is Rs.1 lakh crore, with imports accounting for Rs.75,500 crore.

The task force has to create a roadmap to align technology, demand, standards and regulations for

enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing across the supply chain for manufacturing

mobile phone.

"(One of the tasks is) To promote research and development for mobile phone products and services

for meeting the infrastructure needs of domestic and global market," the government note said.

The task force has members like Josh Foulger, president and director, India Operations Programme

and president, Nokia Special Economic Zone, Hari Om Hari; Lava co-founder Kenichiro Hibi;

managing director, Sony India, Sandeep Bhargava; director, government relations, Microsoft

Devices India, Soon H Kwon; and co-founder, Micromax Informatics, Vikas Jain, among others as its

members.

The other members are S.P. Kochar, chief executive officer, Telecom Sector Skill Council; Sudhir

Hasija, co-founder Karbonn Mobile; Dilip Modi, chairman, Spice Corporation; Asha Nangia, director,

DeitY; S.K. Marwah, director, DeitY and Gautam Ray, ex-joint secretary, TRU.

(Aparajita Gupta can be contacted at [email protected])


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Government Sets up Task Force to Revive Domestic Mobile Manufacturing By IANS

Published: 02nd January 2015 09:59 AM

NEW DELHI: Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of

Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task Force to re-establish

growth in the country's mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-system.





production of 500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5

million approximately," a note issued by the department said.

It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to 120 million

units by 2019.

India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value

of exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013.


"Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands, ODMs

(original design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to request them to

come and set up shop in India. The government has to provide a level playing fields to those

players," Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks, adding that

promoting manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of mobile handsets and they

will come down.

In India, Samsung and Micromax currently engage in the large-scale manufacturing of handsets.

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Nokia operated the world's largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu which was

shut down in November on tax and labour issues.


The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs.75,000 crore ($12 billion) in 2014, of

which handsets worth Rs.58,550 crore are imported.




mobile phone.

"(One of the tasks is) To promote research and development for mobile phone products and services

for meeting the infrastructure needs of domestic and global market," the government note said.

The task force has members like Josh Foulger, president and director, India Operations Programme

and president, Nokia Special Economic Zone, Hari Om Hari; Lava co-founder Kenichiro Hibi;

managing director, Sony India, Sandeep Bhargava; director, government relations, Microsoft

Devices India, Soon H Kwon; and co-founder, Micromax Informatics, Vikas Jain, among others as its

members.

The other members are S.P. Kochar, chief executive officer, Telecom Sector Skill Council; Sudhir

Hasija, co-founder Karbonn Mobile; Dilip Modi, chairman, Spice Corporation; Asha Nangia, director,

DeitY; S.K. Marwah, director, DeitY and Gautam Ray, ex-joint secretary, TRU.


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Government Sets Up Task Force to Revive Domestic Mobile Manufacturing Indo-Asian News Service, January 01, 2015

Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of Electronics and Information

Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task Force to re-establish growth in the country's mobile

handset and component manufacturing eco-system.




"(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale manufacturing/assembling activity to achieve production of

500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5 million

approximately," a note issued by the department said.

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It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to 120 million units by

2019.

India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value of

exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013.


"Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands, ODMs (original

design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to request them to come and set up

shop in India. The government has to provide a level playing fields to those players," Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks, adding that promoting

manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of mobile handsets and they will come down.


handsets. Nokia operated the world's largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu which

was shut down in November on tax and labour issues.


The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs.75,000 crore ($12 billion) in 2014, of which

handsets worth Rs.58,550 crore are imported.




mobile phone.

"(One of the tasks is) To promote research and development for mobile phone products and services for

meeting the infrastructure needs of domestic and global market," the government note said.

The task force has members like Josh Foulger, president and director, India Operations Programme and

president, Nokia Special Economic Zone, Hari Om Hari; Lava co-founder Kenichiro Hibi; managing

director, Sony India, Sandeep Bhargava; director, government relations, Microsoft Devices India, Soon H

Kwon; and co-founder, Micromax Informatics, Vikas Jain, among others as its members.

The other members are S.P. Kochar, chief executive officer, Telecom Sector Skill Council; Sudhir Hasija,

co-founder Karbonn Mobile; Dilip Modi, chairman, Spice Corporation; Asha Nangia, director, DeitY; S.K.

Marwah, director, DeitY and Gautam Ray, ex-joint secretary, TRU.

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DeitY announced to set up Fast Track Task Force to

boost mobile manufacturing

30-DEC-2014

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) on 29 December 2014

announced to set up a Fast Track Task Force to re-establish and catalyse significant growth in

mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-system in India.

As part of boost mobile manufacturing, the task force aims to achieve production of 500 million

units of mobile handsets by 2019.

It includes promotion of large scale manufacturing/assembly activity to achieve production of

annual manufacturing output of 150000 crore rupees to 300000 crore rupees.

It is estimated that this large scale production can create employment opportunity for 15 lakh

people.

Composition of the Task Force

The Chairman of the Task Force is Pankaj Mohindroo, the President of Indian Cellular

Association (ICA). The Co-Chairmen of the task force are Josh Foulger, the President of Nokia

SEZ and Hari Om Rai, the Co-founder of Lava mobile handsets.

The members of the Task Force

• BD Park, Managing Director, Samsung India

• Kenichiro Hibi, Managing Director, Sony India

• Sandeep Bhargava, Microsoft Devices Director for Government relations

• Soon H Kwon, Managing Director, LG India

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• Vikas Jain, Co-founder of Micromax Informatics

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) Directors SK Marwah and

Asha Nangia will represent government in this task force.

Why the need to set up Task force

ICA in its budget recommendation has said that in absence of corrective measures, mobile

exports from India will crash to zero in 2015.

Mobile market in India is estimated to grown by 32 per cent or to 12 billion US dollar in 2014 but

imports account for three-quarters of the market.

Domestic production fell by 29 per cent in 2014 mainly due to suspension of production at Nokia

plant.

Exports of mobile phones have been declining after touching a peak level of 12000 crore rupees

in 2012.

Mobile exports crashed by 70 per cent from 11850 crore rupees in 2013 to 2450 crore rupees in

2014.


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Government sets up task force to revive domestic mobile

manufacturingBack to Index New Delhi, Jan 1: Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of

Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task Force to re-establish

growth in the country's mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-system.




"(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale manufacturing/assembling activity to achieve production of

500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5 million

approximately," a note issued by the department said.

It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to 120 million units by

2019.

India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value of

exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013.


"Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands, ODMs (original

design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to request them to come and set up

shop in India. The government has to provide a level playing fields to those players," Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks, adding that promoting

manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of mobile handsets and they will come down.

In India, Samsung and Micromax currently engage in the large-scale manufacturing of handsets. Nokia

operated the world's largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu which was shut down

in November on tax and labour issues.


The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs.75,000 crore ($12 billion) in 2014, of which

handsets worth Rs.58,550 crore are imported.




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"(One of the tasks is) To promote research and development for mobile phone products and services for

meeting the infrastructure needs of domestic and global market," the government note said.

The task force has members like Josh Foulger, president and director, India Operations Programme and

president, Nokia Special Economic Zone, Hari Om Hari; Lava co-founder Kenichiro Hibi; managing

director, Sony India, Sandeep Bhargava; director, government relations, Microsoft Devices India, Soon H

Kwon; and co-founder, Micromax Informatics, Vikas Jain, among others as its members.

The other members are S.P. Kochar, chief executive officer, Telecom Sector Skill Council; Sudhir Hasija,

co-founder Karbonn Mobile; Dilip Modi, chairman, Spice Corporation; Asha Nangia, director, DeitY; S.K.

Marwah, director, DeitY and Gautam Ray, ex-joint secretary, TRU.

Source: Indo-Asian News Service


http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=156399

Government Establishes Joint Task Force To Foster Mobile Phone

Manufacturing In India

Pankaj Mohindroo, Industry body Indian Cellular Association (ICA) national president has been assigned

as the Chairman for the task force.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014: Government has established a joint task force, which will

involve industry representatives from Samsung, Microsoft Devices and Lava, with an aim to

change the nation‟s mobile phone manufacturing ecosystem and achieve the set target of

developing 500 million units of mobile handsets by 2019. Pankaj Mohindroo, Industry body

Indian Cellular Association (ICA) national president has been assigned as the Chairman for the

task force.

Indian Cellular Association, Lava, Microsoft Devices, Microsoft, Samsung, Joint task force,

Mobile phones manufacturing in India, DEITY , Sony India

Josh Foulger, Nokia SEZ president and director, India operations and Lava Co-Founder Hari

Om Rai have been appointed as co-chairman of the task force. Other members in the board

are, Samsung India Managing Director BD Park, Sony India Kenichiro Hibi, Microsoft Devices

Director for Government relations Sandeep Bhargava, LG India MD Soon H Kwon and

Micromax Informatics Co-founder Vikas Jain.

SK Marwah and Asha Nangia, the directors at the Department of Electronics and Information

Technology (DEITY) will represent the government in this task force. Under the office

memorandum, DEITY has announced, establishment of a „Fast Track task Force‟ to 're-

establish and catalyse significant growth in mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-

system in India.'

Also the terms of reference of the task force in the office memorandum involves bringing in of

'large scale manufacturing/ assembly activity to attain production of 500 million units of mobile

handsets by 2019, thereby reaching the total count of annual manufacturing of Rs 1500,000

million to 3000,000 million. Such large scale production can create employment opportunity for

over 1.5 million people.

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Government task force to nurture local

mobile companies growth

NEW DELHI: The government has constituted a 14-member task force to catalyse the growth of mobile phone

and component manufacturing ecosystem in India, which is on a downward spiral, with the aim of providing

much-needed impetus to Delhi's 'Make in India' plans. The panel, which includes representatives from the

department of electronics and IT (Deity) and heads of leading local and international mobile phone companies

operating in India, has been assigned a 20-point agenda to promote local manufacturing of mobile phones,

according to internal ministry documents dated December 8, reviewed by ET.

The committee will have to create a viable roadmap and vision document that broadly outlines investment

targets into this sector over five years till 2019. The panel's recommendations will include technology and

demand forecasts aligned with potential landscape of the industry over this period. It will come up with a

preliminary report within eight weeks of its first meeting, the date of which is not known yet.

Top smartphone makers Samsung India, Micromax, Lava and Karbonn, which hold more than half the

market, will be part of the task force along with upcoming players like Sony, LG and Microsoft, which will

be headed by Indian Cellular Association's president Pankaj Mohindroo, the documents showed. The

seven-month old government has set an aim to achieve production of 500 million mobile phones by 2019

and an annual manufacturing output of Rs 150,000 crore to Rs 300,000 crore, roughly a quarter of the

world's handset manufacturing. In the same time frame, a turnover target of Rs 50,000 crore for the

component making industry has been set. The panel will also recommend possible measures for creating

intellectual property and promote innovation in the sector and increase exports from India to 120 million

mobile phone units by 2019 from the present level of 30 million.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an ambitious project to make India a manufacturing hub of

electronics, beginning with mobile phones, which will help boost growth and employment, besides making

India less dependent on imports that are set to rise to $400 billion, surpassing oil, by 2020. The

government recently said that the country imported telecom products worth Rs 69,516.37 crore in 2013-

14 while exports of such items were at Rs 20,475.17 crore during the year, leaving a significant deficit of

Rs 49,041.20 crore.

Moreover, production of mobile handsets in the country is projected to be down by more than half even as

import of handsets is expected to rise by over 18% in 2014. The task force will also give

recommendations to provide enabling business environment, policy standardisations and rational duty

structure among other critical areas such as skill development and generating employment opportunity for

1.5 million people.

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The government has constituted a 14-member task force to catalyse the growth of mobile phone and

component manufacturing ecosystem in India, which is on a downward spiral, with the aim of providing much-

needed impetus to Delhi's 'Make in India' plans. The panel, which includes representatives from the department

of electronics and IT (Deity) and heads of leading local and international mobile phone companies operating in

India, has been assigned a 20-point agenda to promote local manufacturing of mobile phones, according to

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Government sets up task force to revive domestic mobile manufacturing By Aparajita Gupta New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task Force to re-establish growth in the country's mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-system. "The task force will be meeting the Department of Electronics and Information Technology secretary (R.S.Sharma) in the first week of January," Pankaj Mohindroo, national president, Indian Cellular Association, told IANS. Sharma is also the chairman of the task force. "(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale manufacturing/assembling activity to achieve production of 500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5 million approximately," a note issued by the department said. It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to 120 million units by 2019. India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value of exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013. Industry stakeholders say at this rate, handset exports will crash to zero in 2015. "Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands, ODMs (original design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to request them to come and set up shop in India. The government has to provide a level playing fields to those players," Mohindroo said. He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks, adding that promoting manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of mobile handsets and they will come down. In India, Samsung and Micromax currently engage in the large-scale manufacturing of handsets. Nokia operated the world's largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu which was shut down in November on tax and labour issues. All the other players import their products mostly from China, followed by Vietnam. The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs.75,000 crore ($12 billion) in 2014, of which handsets worth Rs.58,550 crore are imported.

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For 2015, the estimated market size is Rs.1 lakh crore, with imports accounting for Rs.75,500 crore. The task force has to create a roadmap to align technology, demand, standards and regulations for enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing across the supply chain for manufacturing mobile phone. "(One of the tasks is) To promote research and development for mobile phone products and services for meeting the infrastructure needs of domestic and global market," the government note said. The task force has members like Josh Foulger, president and director, India Operations Programme and president, Nokia Special Economic Zone, Hari Om Hari; Lava co-founder Kenichiro Hibi; managing director, Sony India, Sandeep Bhargava; director, government relations, Microsoft Devices India, Soon H Kwon; and co-founder, Micromax Informatics, Vikas Jain, among others as its members. The other members are S.P. Kochar, chief executive officer, Telecom Sector Skill Council; Sudhir Hasija, co-founder Karbonn Mobile; Dilip Modi, chairman, Spice Corporation; Asha Nangia, director, DeitY; S.K. Marwah, director, DeitY and Gautam Ray, ex-joint secretary, TRU. (Aparajita Gupta can be contacted at [email protected]) --Indo-Asian News Service


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manufacturing/

Government sets up task force to revive domestic mobile manufacturing

By IANS on Jan 2, 2015 at 2:05 PM

Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of

Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task Force to

re-establish growth in the country‟s mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-

system.

“The task force will be meeting the Department of Electronics and Information

Technology secretary (R.S.Sharma) in the first week of January,” Pankaj Mohindroo,

national president, Indian Cellular Association, told IANS. Sharma is also the chairman

of the task force. ”(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale

manufacturing/assembling activity to achieve production of 500 million units by 2019.

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This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5 million approximately,” a

note issued by the department said.

It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to

120 million units by 2019. India‟s position in mobile phone exports has fallen from

seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value of exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell

to $2.28 billion in 2013. Industry stakeholders say at this rate, handset exports will crash

to zero in 2015. ”Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset

manufacturers, brands, ODMs (original design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic

manufacturing services) to request them to come and set up shop in India. The

government has to provide a level playing fields to those players,” Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various tasks,

adding that promoting manufacturing will also have a positive impact on the prices of

mobile handsets and they will come down. In India, Samsung and Micromax currently

engage in the large-scale manufacturing of handsets. Nokia operated the world‟s largest

manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu which was shut down in

November on tax and labour issues.

All the other players import their products mostly from China, followed by Vietnam. The

estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs.75,000 crore ($12 billion) in 2014,

of which handsets worth Rs.58,550 crore are imported. For 2015, the estimated market

size is Rs.1 lakh crore, with imports accounting for Rs.75,500 crore. The task force has

to create a roadmap to align technology, demand, standards and regulations for

enhancing the competitiveness of domestic manufacturing across the supply chain for

manufacturing mobile phone. ”(One of the tasks is) To promote research and

development for mobile phone products and services for meeting the infrastructure

needs of domestic and global market,” the government note said.

The task force has members like Josh Foulger, president and director, India Operations

Programme and president, Nokia Special Economic Zone, Hari Om Hari; Lava co-

founder Kenichiro Hibi; managing director, Sony India, Sandeep Bhargava; director,

government relations, Microsoft Devices India, Soon H Kwon; and co-founder,

Micromax Informatics, Vikas Jain, among others as its members. The other members

are S.P. Kochar, chief executive officer, Telecom Sector Skill Council; Sudhir Hasija, co-

founder Karbonn Mobile; Dilip Modi, chairman, Spice Corporation; Asha Nangia,

director, DeitY; S.K. Marwah, director, DeitY and Gautam Ray, ex-joint secretary, TRU.


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Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task

Force to re-establish growth in the country‟s mobile handset and component



Technology secretary (R.S.Sharma) in the first week of January,” Pankaj

Mohindroo, national president, Indian Cellular Association, told IANS. Sharma is

also the chairman of the task force. ”(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale

manufacturing/assembling activity to achieve production of 500 million units by

2019. This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5 million

approximately,” a note issued by the department said.

It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in

2014 to 120 million units by 2019. India‟s position in mobile phone exports has

fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value of exports was $3.40

billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013. Industry stakeholders say at this

rate, handset exports will crash to zero in 2015. ”Through this task force we will

be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands, ODMs (original design

manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to request them to

come and set up shop in India. The government has to provide a level playing

fields to those players,” Mohindroo said.

He said sub-committees will be formed under this group to carry out various

tasks, adding that promoting manufacturing will also have a positive impact on

the prices of mobile handsets and they will come down. In India, Samsung and

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Micromax currently engage in the large-scale manufacturing of handsets. Nokia

operated the world‟s largest manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur in Tamil

Nadu which was shut down in November on tax and labour issues.

All the other players import their products mostly from China, followed by

Vietnam. The estimated domestic mobile handset market size is Rs.75,000 crore

($12 billion) in 2014, of which handsets worth Rs.58,550 crore are imported. For

2015, the estimated market size is Rs.1 lakh crore, with imports accounting for

Rs.75,500 crore. The task force has to create a roadmap to align technology,

demand, standards and regulations for enhancing the competitiveness of

domestic manufacturing across the supply chain for manufacturing mobile

phone. ”(One of the tasks is) To promote research and development for mobile

phone products and services for meeting the infrastructure needs of domestic

and global market,” the government note said.

The task force has members like Josh Foulger, president and director, India

Operations Programme and president, Nokia Special Economic Zone, Hari Om

Hari; Lava co-founder Kenichiro Hibi; managing director, Sony India, Sandeep

Bhargava; director, government relations, Microsoft Devices India, Soon H Kwon;

and co-founder, Micromax Informatics, Vikas Jain, among others as its

members. The other members are S.P. Kochar, chief executive officer, Telecom

Sector Skill Council; Sudhir Hasija, co-founder Karbonn Mobile; Dilip Modi,

chairman, Spice Corporation; Asha Nangia, director, DeitY; S.K. Marwah,

director, DeitY and Gautam Ray, ex-joint secretary, TRU.


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Government Sets Up Task Force To Revive Domestic Mobile Friday, 02 January 2015, 15:41 IST

BANGALORE: Aiming to take the Make in India programme a step further, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has formed a Fast Track Task Force to re-establish growth in the country's mobile handset and component manufacturing eco-system.

"The task force will be meeting the Department of Electronics and Information Technology secretary (R.S.Sharma) in the first week of January," Pankaj Mohindroo, national president, Indian Cellular Association, told IANS. Sharma is also the chairman of the task force.

"(One of the tasks is) To promote large-scale manufacturing/assembling activity to achieve production of 500 million units by 2019. This can create additional employment opportunities for 1.5 million approximately," a note issued by the department said. It also laid thrust on increasing exports from the estimated 30 million units in 2014 to 120 million units by 2019. India's position in mobile phone exports has fallen from seventh in 2009 to 14th in 2013. The value of exports was $3.40 billion in 2009 and fell to $2.28 billion in 2013. Industry stakeholders say at this rate, handset exports will crash to zero in 2015. "Through this task force we will be reaching out to global handset manufacturers, brands, ODMs (original design manufacturers) and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) to request them to come and set up shop in India. The government has to provide a level playing fields to those players," Mohindroo said. Source: IANS

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Documents

Fast Track Task Force to boost mobile manufacturingica-ind.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Task-Force-Media-Coverage-Report.pdf · In an office memorandum, DEITY has announced setting