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The Indian government on Thursday restricted the import of laptops, PCs tablets, and other consumer-electronic devices. The move is believed to be aimed at boosting domestic manufacturing and targets China, the origin of 75% of India’s imports of such devices, worth $5.33 billion in 2022-23, as frosty diplomatic ties persist between the two Asian economic powerhouses, a report by RT said.

Modi-led government aims to transform India into an electronics-manufacturing hub and to reduce dependence on tech imports from China Read Full Article at RT.com

The manufacturing value-add in computers would be a tiny fraction of the value added in services compromised by restricted IT imports. For a few million dollars’ worth of forced manufacture, should India make life difficult for a trillion-dollar technology and technology enabled services industry?

Exclusive for Subscribers from Monday to Friday: Have you ever thought about how restricted imports of computers and laptops or The Jan Vishwas Bill 2023 are relevant to the UPSC Exam? What significance do topics like India’s Nuclear Doctrine and the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 have for both the preliminary and main exams? You can learn more by reading the Indian Express UPSC Key for August 4, 2023.

The Indian government on Thursday restricted the import of laptops, PCs tablets, and other consumer-electronic devices. The move is believed to be aimed at boosting domestic manufacturing and targets China, the origin of 75% of India’s imports of such devices, worth $5.33 billion in 2022-23, as frosty diplomatic ties persist between the two Asian economic powerhouses, a report by RT said.