NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 32 worldwide electronics corporations have utilized to India’s incentive programme to make laptops, tablets and servers within the nation, a prime minister stated on Wednesday, weeks after the federal government introduced restrictions on laptop computer imports.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities is pushing to spice up home manufacturing capability beneath its “Make in India” initiative, with a number of international corporations both organising their very own models or getting into joint ventures with Indian companies.

The purposes by the electronics corporations have been made beneath the nation’s $2 billion production-linked incentive (PLI) programme for data know-how {hardware}, introduced in May, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated.

Earlier this month, India stated it could impose a licensing requirement for imports of laptops, tablets and private computer systems, which was extensively seen as a transfer to spice up native manufacturing.

The corporations which have utilized to make laptops and different merchandise in India embody Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co, Dell Technologies, Asus, Acer and Lenovo, stated Vaishnaw, in response to a video feed from ANI information company, by which Reuters has a minority stake.

The PLI scheme for IT {hardware} is predicted to convey 24.3 billion rupees ($294.24 million) of incremental funding and is more likely to generate 75,000 direct jobs, the minister stated.

($1 = 82.5855 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Blassy Boben; enhancing by Jonathan Oatis)