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Option 3 : China and India
The correct answer is option 3) China and India.
- India has emerged as the second-largest manufacturer of mobile handsets in the world in terms of volume while China is the first.
- As per the information provided by Amitabh Kant, CEO at NITI Aayog, over 200 units are manufacturing cellular mobile phones in 2022, up from only 2 units in the year 2014.
- The production has gone up from 6 crore mobile phones in 2014-15 to 30 crore mobile phones in 2020-21.
- NITI Aayog is the apex public policy think tank of the Indian government formed on 1st January 2015.
- Chairperson- Prime Minister
- Vice-chairperson- Suman Bery
- CEO- Amitabh Kant
- The top 3 mobile manufacturing companies in the world are:
- Samsung (South Korea)
- Apple (USA)
- Xiaomi (China)
- The government of India had announced a Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing on April 01, 2020, which offers a production linked incentive to boost domestic manufacturing and attract large investments in mobile phone manufacturing and specified electronic components, including Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging (ATMP) units.
- After the success of the First Round of the Production Linked Incentive Scheme in attracting investments in mobile phone and electronic component manufacturing, the proposal for accepting applications under the Second Round of the PLI Scheme has been approved by the Competent Authority. The target segment for the purpose of this round shall be Specified Electronic Components.
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