Telecom department comes with new 'Make in India' rules for 36 networking products

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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has taken a significant step to boost domestic manufacturing in the telecom sector. In a notification issued recently, the telecom department has identified 36 products for which a minimum local content of 50% or more is now required in public procurement.

As per the report, these 36 products include routers, ethernet switches, media gateways, customer premises equipment, Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) equipment, IP based Soft Switches, IMS, Unified Communication Systems, Wireline PABXs, VSAT Hub Subsystems, Satellite Phones(S Bands), Telecom Batteries, IP Audio/Video phones and IP/ Internet Set-top Box. From this list certain products will have minimum local content of more than 50%, on rest, the minimum local content has to be 65%.

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Telecom department comes with new 'Make in India' rules for these 36 products - Times of India

TECH NEWS : The Department of Telecommunications has mandated that at least 50% local content is required for 36 identified telecom products in public procurement
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I feel it's a good move to advance our local manufacturing and progress towards self reliance. If we stay dependent on imports for these essential items then when the global supply chain is affected it will affect us as well. But if we have domestic production we won't face skyrocketing of prices of these equipment during global shortage. That's the reason we are trying so hard to get semiconductor plants set up here so we can reduce dependence on Taiwan.
 
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I feel it's a good move to advance our local manufacturing and progress towards self reliance. If we stay dependent on imports for these essential items then when the global supply chain is affected it will affect us as well. But if we have domestic production we won't face skyrocketing of prices of these equipment during global shortage. That's the reason we are trying so hard to get semiconductor plants set up here so we can reduce dependence on Taiwan.
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BSNL isn't getting new radios from Tejas Networks. The technology is equivalent to Nokia.
 
Good effort buy GoI.Now hope babus and business enity donot fool buy buying cheap from China /alibaba and repackage/assemble it in India and makes it as "Make in India"

Gov should also includes one clause like if brads/business entity includes University/engineer collage /ITI students in this effort then that entity will get more TAX breaks
 
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