Make in India Initiative

Make in India is a Government of India industrial policy initiative launched in 2014 to promote India as a global manufacturing, investment and innovation destination. It aims to create an enabling environment in which enterprises can manufacture competitively in India, generate employment and build domestic productive capacity.

Economic transformation sought

The initiative seeks to make India a competitive location for producing goods, rather than merely a large consumer market. Its central goals are to expand manufacturing, attract productive investment and strengthen India's position in global production.

• It aims to increase manufacturing's contribution to economic growth and generate large-scale employment.
• It encourages both domestic and foreign enterprises to manufacture, design and innovate in India.
• It seeks to improve productivity, quality and global competitiveness across industrial sectors.

Enablers of manufacturing growth

Make in India treats manufacturing growth as dependent on a supportive industrial ecosystem, not merely on incentives to individual firms.

• It seeks to facilitate investment through simpler procedures, transparent regulation and a more business-friendly administrative environment.
• It promotes modern industrial infrastructure, technology adoption and innovation.
• It emphasises skill development so that industrial expansion creates productive employment.
• It seeks stronger protection and administration of intellectual property rights.

Policy approach

The initiative is organised around four broad pillars: new processes, new infrastructure, new sectors and a new mindset. This approach combines regulatory reform, infrastructure development, sectoral opening and a shift in government from regulator alone towards facilitator and partner.