Question : NEP

(a) the salient features of National Electronics Policy (NEP) 2012;

(b) whether the Government is considering to amend the NEP 2012 to make country an electronics manufacturing hub;

(c) if so, whether the Government is working on a negative list of items that cannot be imported due to security concerns;

(d) if so, whether the Government has decided to indigenously manufacture items that cannot be imported due to security concerns ; and

(e) if so, the steps taken by the Government to promote indigenous manufacturing of electronics goods and to make the country an electronic hardware manufacturing hub?

MINISTER FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI (RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD)

(a): The National Policy on Electronics (NPE 2012) was notified in October 2012 with the vision to create a globally competitive electronics design and manufacturing industry to meet the country`s needs and serve the international market. The salient features of NPE 2012 enunciating the objectives and strategies are annexed as Annexure-1.

(b) No, Sir.

(c) and (d): Do not arise.

(e): The steps being taken to promote Electronics/IT Hardware Manufacturing in the country are mentioned in Annexure-2.