India's mobile phone exports jump 165-fold in a decade to Rs 2.59 lakh crore: Govt

India's mobile phone exports have increased 165-fold over the past decade, rising from around Rs 1,500 crore in 2014-15 to about Rs 2.59 lakh crore in 2025-26, underscoring the country's growing position as a global electronics manufacturing hub, the government told Parliament on Wednesday.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said mobile phone production has also expanded nearly 33 times during the period, from Rs 18,000 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 6.27 lakh crore in 2025-26.

Overall electronics production has grown almost sevenfold, increasing from around Rs 1.9 lakh crore to Rs 13.11 lakh crore, while electronics exports have risen about 11 times from nearly Rs 38,000 crore to Rs 4.24 lakh crore, the minister said.


Vaishnaw said the government has introduced targeted policy measures to strengthen electronics manufacturing across the value chain, including semiconductors and memory chips.

He informed the House that under the Semicon India Programme, launched in January 2022, the government is supporting the setting up of semiconductor fabrication plants, display fabs, semiconductor packaging facilities and indigenous chip design.

On memory chip manufacturing, Vaishnaw said two companies are currently producing memory chips in India. Micron manufactures DRAM, NAND Flash Memory and Solid State Drives, while Sahasra manufactures NAND Flash Memory.

The minister also noted that global memory chip supplies have tightened amid rising demand from artificial intelligence servers, data centres and advanced computing applications, resulting in firmer memory chip prices.

He said the Union Cabinet has approved Semicon 2.0 to further strengthen India's semiconductor ecosystem, promote semiconductor manufacturing and chip design, and meet both domestic and global demand.

According to Vaishnaw, these initiatives are aimed at building a resilient electronics manufacturing ecosystem and advancing the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat.