The Sourcing Puzzle: Can India's Electronics Manufacturers Build Local Supply Chains Fast Enough?

Behind the polished booths at BIEC, a more practical conversation ran through electronica India and productronica India 2026  where, exactly, are Indian electronics manufacturers supposed to source their components and sub-assemblies from, and how much of that supply chain is genuinely local yet?

India's electronics component manufacturing policy has a headline number now, and it is a big one. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has approved 106 projects under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS), representing ₹69,548 crore in investment and an expected 74,628 direct jobs, with 38 manufacturing plants already operational. That is the scaffolding the government is counting on to end India's structural dependence on imported passives, connectors, PCBs and sub-assemblies. The question electronica India and productronica India 2026 surfaced, repeatedly, is how quickly that scaffolding turns into components engineers can actually specify on a bill of materials today.
The gap, described by the people filling it
Some of the most candid commentary at the show came not from Indian manufacturers but from companies positioned to profit from the gap that still exists. Cytech Systems, exhibiting at Booth H5.C95, described what it called the reality of doing business in India's electronics market this year: component s...