PLI Draws Rs 2.58 Lakh Crore Investment Across 14 Sectors

A backgrounder issued on 13 November 2026 sets out what the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) framework has achieved since it was introduced in 2020 under Atmanirbhar Bharat. The scheme began with mobile manufacturing, selected electronic components, active pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices, and has since widened to 14 strategic sectors with a total approved outlay of Rs 1,91,049 crore, that is about Rs 1.91 lakh crore.

The scoreboard as on 30 June 2026

Of the jobs counted, 8.81 lakh are direct and 5.75 lakh indirect across IT hardware, large scale electronics and solar modules. Money is paid out only after a company meets its investment and production conditions, which is why disbursal trails the investment figure by a wide margin.

Electronics and mobile phones

Large scale electronics manufacturing has gained the most. Electronics production rose from Rs 11.32 lakh crore in 2024-25 to Rs 13.11 lakh crore in 2025-26, a rise of 15.8 per cent in a single year. Measured against 2014-15, output is now seven times larger and electronics exports have multiplied eleven-fold to Rs 4.24 lakh crore. Mobile phone production has grown 33 times to Rs 6.27 lakh crore, India is the second largest maker of handsets by volume, the country has turned from a net importer into a net exporter of phones, and 99.2 per cent of the handsets used in India are now built at home. Imports of mobile phones have fallen by close to 77 per cent.

Other sectors

• Pharmaceuticals: the PLI scheme carries an outlay of Rs 15,000 crore, and 191 bulk drugs are being made in India for the first time.
• Telecom and networking: exports reached Rs 21,033 crore and the scheme is cited as an early success in import substitution.
• Export growth between 2021 and 2025 averaged 77.2 per cent a year in IT hardware, 45.0 per cent in ACC batteries, 38.8 per cent in electronics, 23.9 per cent in solar photovoltaic modules and 22.5 per cent in specialty steel.

The document frames all of this as groundwork for Viksit Bharat 2047, with the next phase aimed at deepening value chains and pushing India further into global production networks.