Samsung joins India laptop making push
₹100-200 crore, the person added. Queries sent to a spokesperson for Samsung India remained unanswered till Monday evening. The ministry of electronics and information technology (IT) and the Directorate General of Foreign Trade under the ministry of commerce will set up an import management system to begin registering companies that import IT hardware, including laptops and servers, from 1 November and require them to reduce their imports by imposing annual quotas.
Mint reported on Friday that the government will allow a certain number of products to be imported every year, which will be curtailed each year. The restrictions will be reviewed after six years. Alongside imposing restrictions, the government is providing incentives worth ₹17,000 crore through a production-linked incentives (PLI) scheme for IT hardware over five to seven years.
Samsung India did not participate in the IT hardware PLI scheme, which closed at August-end, according to data made available by the IT ministry. Samsung already makes several of its consumer goods in India and has its largest mobile phone manufacturing facility also housed here, which it began constructing in 2017 with an investment of nearly ₹5,000 crore. Industry experts said Samsung’s local production plans would remain small compared to rivals such as HP, Lenovo and Dell, the top three companies in the Indian laptop market.
“Samsung is a very small player in PC/notebook. It has invested in local assembly of tablets and smartphones, but assembly of notebooks isn’t a feasible business for them at this point in time," said Navkendar Singh, associate vice-president at International Data Corp (IDC) India. He, however, added that HP, Lenovo and Dell, which were already making large
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