The government has approved investments worth ₹7,100 crore in the fourth round of the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme, with Dixon Technologies among the beneficiaries as its ₹1,100 crore project receives clearance under the scheme. The latest approvals take the total investment granted under ECMS across all rounds to ₹61,671 crore, underscoring the scheme’s scale as a central pillar of India’s push to build a domestic electronics component manufacturing ecosystem.
Dixon Technologies, one of India’s largest electronics manufacturing services companies, receiving a ₹1,100 crore project approval is a significant development for the company and for India’s broader electronics supply chain ambitions. Dixon has been one of the most active participants in India’s electronics manufacturing incentive programmes and the ECMS approval adds to its growing project pipeline across display modules, mobile phones, and other electronics segments.
What Is the ECMS
The Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme is a government incentive programme designed to address one of the most persistent structural weaknesses in India’s electronics manufacturing story. While India has made significant progress in assembling finished electronics products, particularly smartphones, the components that go into those products, including displays, cameras, connectors, printed circuit boards, and passive components, have continued to be largely imported, primarily from China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan.
The ECMS offers financial incentives to companies that invest in manufacturing these components domestically, with the goal of building the upstream supply chain that would make India’s electronics assembly sector genuinely self-reliant rather than dependent on imported components for the critical inputs that determine a finished product’s value and quality.
The ₹61,671 crore in total approved investments across all four rounds represents a substantial commitment from both the government and the private sector to building this supply chain, though the translation of approved investments into operational manufacturing capacity is a process that will take years to complete.
This is a developing story. Business Upturn will update this article as further details on the Round 4 approvals and Dixon Technologies’ specific project are confirmed.
This article is based on information reported by CNBC TV18 on March 30, 2026. This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice.