Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has exhorted the Electronics Industry to explore the new opportunities that are arising out of the adversity and make the country a global hub of electronics manufacturing.

During a meeting with Electronics Industry Associations, Chambers and prominent Industry players yesterday,  Mr Prasad urged the electronics industry to take advantage and strengthen the sector.

The Union Minister also apprised the Industry that the requests regarding broadening the definition of essential goods to ICT products and Services of ICT essential goods has already been taken up with the Home Ministry.

He said, under the newly notified schemes of Ministry to promote electronics manufacturing, the Government will provide a financial support of 50 thousand  crore rupees for  Electronics System Design and Manufacturing industry.

Mr Prasad also mentioned that Ministry’s initiatives like Aarogya Setu, Aadhar and Digital payments have played a very important role in fighting against COVID-19.

During the meeting, the Ministry officials presented the current COVID-19 situation and  Aarogya Setu platform. They also thanked the mobile industry for their support in making the Aarogya Setu app reach around eight crore mobile phones in the country.

The efforts made by Ministry to handle the situation in the short term, medium-term and long term prospective to minimize the effect of COVID-19 were also presented during the meeting.