Can IT and electronics manufacturing in India take off?

While the worldover PC sales are falling, where as in India notebook computer sales are rising. During the year Apr 2013 to Mar 2014, Notebook PC has grown significantly by 55% among households, as per the latest study by MAIT. Other market findings by MAIT on India IT products include: The total PC sales between including desktop PC, notebook PC and netbooks were at 11.85 million (118.5 lakh) units, registering a growth of six per cent during Apr 2013 to Mar 2014 compared to same period year ago. Tablets PCs are growing at 76% Smartphone reports a phenomenal growth of 244% Computer server segment showed 58% growth Notebook sales among Establishments during 2013-14 ended with a rise of 39%.The growth is mainly accounted by SMB. Overall printer sales grew by 6% during 2013-14 over the last fiscal year. The sales at 2013-14 stood at 3.10 million (31.0 lakh) units. The total IT Hardware market to touch $ 12.43 billion Above figures says the market demand force is quite strong. This demand is expected to become a Tsunami size demand by 2020 at a total electronics products worth US$400 Billion. Large enough to destabilize the economy, if much of this is imported. Its not IT products alone, it’s all-round demand for wide range of electronics systems. India's manufacturing in IT and electronics hardware is not even 20%. Let's look at the some of the hurdles India ...