Budget 2024: Local telecom gear manufacturing to get a boost with customs duty hikeFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed a 5% increase in the basic customs duty (BCD) of printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) to ...
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'No need to panic': PCBA refutes reports labelling Guwahati as 2nd most polluted city in Central & South AsiaA statement issued by Dr. Shantanu Kumar Dutta, Secretary of PCBA, addressed the misleading report concerning Guwahati's air quality. The r...
Introduce PLI for crucial components, reverse engg industrial labs, not small firm-dominated goods: GTRI“Given the upcoming carbon border taxes imposed by the EU and soon by other countries, India must invest in clean energy technologies…Secto...
Budget: Indian mobile handset industry wants ecosystem for domestic manufacturing, exportsThere is scope for more as it still has some 350-400 million feature phone users who can be upgraded to smartphones. The industry wants an ...
UP government allows manufacturing units to function during lockdowns, curfews“UP has taken an excellent step of permitting industries to operate continuously even in the curfew period,” said Pankaj Mohindroo, chairma...
Import duty on some sub-parts of phones, chargers raised to 2.5%“For greater value addition we are withdrawing a few exemptions on parts of chargers and sub-parts of mobiles. Further, some parts of mobil...
Companies want separate 3% PLI incentives for PCB assemblyIn a letter written to the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on December 19, the India Cellular & Electronics Association (ICEA) sough...
Industry seeks sops for PCBA, says $109 billion opportunityThis presents a domestic market of $87 billion and export opportunity of $109 billion. Currently, the major players in India’s PCBA manufac...
India has $100-billion export potential in PCBA: ICEA-EY studyThe report cites that a PCBA is at the core of every electronic device such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, routers, televisions, was...
Oil India claims closure notice served to it by Pollution Control Board of Assam is withdrawn“The Closure Notice served by Pollution Control Board of Assam (PCBA) has been withdrawn. PCBA has asked OIL to fulfill certain conditions ...
OIL claims closure notice served by Assam Pollution Control Board on the verge of getting liftedOIL stated that PCBA served a Closure Notice directing OIL to close down all the production as well as Drilling operations of all installat...
Import duty hike to drive local handset makingOn Saturday, the government proposed increasing the import duty on PCBAs to 20% from 10% and chargers to 20% from 15%, to encourage local m...
Featurphone prices to increase after PCBA duty hikeThe government announced a 20% customs duty on PCBA which currently attracts a 10% customs duty, thus encouraging local production of the s...
Lost phones can be tampered with, tracking may be limitedThe central registry for stolen or lost mobiles may not be able to protect the tampering or untraceablity of the phones. The IMEI can also ...
IIT Guwahati & pollution control board to tackle air pollution in AssamThe MoU was signed between Prof. Sharad Gokhale, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Guwahati and Dr. D. N. Das, Member Secretary of PCBA ...
Apple flexes India muscle with locally sourced battery packsApple is sourcing battery packs from US contract manufacturer Flex’s India plant for locally-made iPhones.