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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- Make in India is an Indian government initiative launched in 2014 to transform the country into a global manufacturing, design, and innovation hub.
- What is the manufacturing GDP target under Make in India, and has it been met?
- How does Make in India relate to the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme?
- How is Make in India different from Atmanirbhar Bharat?
- Which sectors saw the most measurable Make in India success?

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## Timeline

1. 25 September 2014

   Make in India was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, as a flagship programme of the Government of India to encourage d…

2. 1 July 2017

   The Goods and Services Tax, implemented , unified the indirect-tax market and reduced inter-state friction for manufacturers.

## Positions at a glance

### Supporters

Make in India was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 September 2014 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, as a flagship programme of the Government of India to encourage domestic and foreign firms to manufacture products within the country. The initiative is administered by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It does not rest on a single enabling statute but operates through executive policy, sectoral Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) reforms under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, amendments to the Companies Act, and a cluster of supporting missions. The programme originally identified 25 focus sectors—including automobiles, defence manufacturing, electronics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, aviation, and renewable energy—and set the headline target of raising the manufacturing share of GDP to 25 percent and creating 100 million jobs by 2022, a horizon later recalibrated.

### Opponents

Controversies attend the programme's headline metrics. The manufacturing share of GDP stagnated near 15–17 percent rather than rising to the targeted 25 percent, and the Periodic Labour Force Survey did not register manufacturing-employment gains commensurate with the 100-million-job pledge. Critics, including parliamentary standing committee reports, noted that several PLI sectors underperformed disbursement targets and that "manufacturing" in electronics often amounted to low-value-added assembly rather than deep component fabrication. The 2025 launch of "Make in India 2.0," covering 27 sectors with sharpened focus on semiconductors (the India Semiconductor Mission and the Dholera and Sanand fabrication plants) and component ecosystems, responds to these critiques. Geopolitically, the "China plus one" supply-chain diversification following the COVID-19 pandemic and US–China trade tensions has supplied external tailwinds the original 2014 design did not anticipate.

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