ECMS: Government Approves 12 More Electronics Component Projects Worth ₹7,503 Crore
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) approved 12 more applications under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS), with a total investment of about ₹7,503 crore. The decision was announced at a press briefing on 6 November 2026.
These projects are expected to produce goods worth more than ₹39,000 crore and create over 7,200 direct jobs.
The new projects will make basic materials used inside electronics: cathode active material and anode material (the two main active parts of a battery), copper foil, polypropylene film (used in capacitors) and specialty ceramics. These feed batteries, printed circuit boards and semiconductors.
Many of the approvals fall under the scheme's segment for materials, and three relate to capital goods (the machines used to make components). The aim is to cut India's dependence on imports for these inputs.
With this tranche, 118 applications covering 34 product types in 16 states have been approved so far. Approved investment and expected production have already gone past the scheme's original targets.
The scheme's outlay (the money set aside for it) was raised to ₹40,000 crore from about ₹22,919 crore in the Union Budget 2026-27.
Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS)
The Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) is a Government of India scheme that gives money to companies that make electronic components in India. Components are the small parts inside a phone or laptop, like circuit boards, camera modules, displays, batteries and capacitors. India already assembles most of the phones it uses, but it still imports most of the parts inside them. ECMS tries to bring the making of these parts, and the materials behind them, into India.
The 12 new approvals push the scheme further down the supply chain, into the raw materials like battery materials, copper foil and ceramics that every component needs. This is the deepest layer of import dependence that ECMS is meant to remove.
Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme
The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme is a government plan that gives companies a cash reward for producing more in India. The reward is a small percentage of the extra sales a company makes from goods made in its Indian factories, compared to a starting year. So the more a company produces and sells, the more it earns. It is like a bonus paid only after the work is done.
PLI made India good at assembling finished phones, but the parts were still imported. ECMS, which approved these 12 projects, is the next step: it uses a similar turnover-linked reward to build the component and materials base that PLI left out.
National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM): India's Plan to Secure Minerals of the Future
The National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM) is the Government of India's seven-year programme to make the country self-reliant in critical minerals. These are minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and rare earths. They are vital for electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels and electronics, but their supply is controlled by a few countries.
Several of the new ECMS projects will make cathode and anode materials for batteries. These depend on critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite, so ECMS (making the materials) and NCMM (securing the minerals) work as two halves of the same supply chain.
- New ECMS approvals: 12 applications; investment about ₹7,503 crore; expected production over ₹39,000 crore; over 7,200 direct jobs.
- Products: cathode active material, anode material, copper foil, polypropylene film, specialty ceramics; three capital goods projects.
- Cumulative: 118 applications, 34 products, 16 states.
- Approved investment about ₹77,051 crore vs original target ₹59,350 crore; projected production up from ₹4.56 lakh crore to ₹5.73 lakh crore.
- ECMS outlay: ₹22,919 crore (March 2025) raised to ₹40,000 crore (Budget 2026-27); tenure FY 2025-26 to FY 2031-32.
- Nodal ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).