TEMA says additional duty of 2.5% on mobiles, promotes 'Make in India' mobile phones and electronics

TEMA, (Telecom Equipment Mfg. Association), India compliments the government on the reformative Budget aimed at economic growth and ease of living for Indian citizens. The proposed new scheme and additional duty on mobile components will help 'Make in India' for mobile phones and electronics.

Delhi: TEMA welcomes the decision for additional duty of 2.5% on mobiles and parts of mobiles as part of such carefully conceived Phased Manufacturing Plans. As the government has announced PLI for mobiles and domestic manufacturing picking up, this decision will help in 'Make in India' by promoting domestic components.

As per the government, it has assigned Rs 41000 crores scheme on production link incentive on mobile phones, and thereby mobile manufacturing has picked up very fast. So, this imposition of 2.5% duty on some of the components will not affect customers in a big way.

Prof NK Goyal, Chairman Emeritus, TEMA(Telecom Equipment Mfg. Association), India explains that as per some industry views, it may affect hardly 0.1 to 0.3% of the total bill of the materials used for manufacturing of the phones. On the other side, it will encourage the domestic procurements of mobile phone components. It is worth mentioning that the Tamil Nadu government recently approved various mobile manufacturing components.

TEMA also welcomes the initiative to launch the new scheme on encouraging the manufacturing of mobile phones, semiconductor packaging, and electronic equipments.

TEMA is also happy to see an increase of MSME budget from Rs 7,572 crores to Rs 15,700 Crores..a big boost for MSME sector.

TEMA is also enthused by the decision of Rs 50,000 Crores for the National Research Foundation for promoting research and development. TM believes that this includes the telecom and electronic sector also.