“The Union Budget has tweaked duty on electronics and phone parts in the Union Budget 2023. In today’s budget announcement, the Mobile phone production in India increased from 5.8 crore units valued at over ‘18,900 crore in 2014–15 to 31 crore units valued at over ‘2,75,000 crore in the most recent financial year as a result of numerous government initiatives, including the Phased Manufacturing Programme. We suggest reducing the customs charge on the import of some components and inputs, such as camera lenses, and extending the reduced duty on lithium-ion cells for batteries for an additional year in order to further increase domestic value addition in the production of mobile phones. We appreciate this step taken by the government as it makes electronic devices(mobiles) affordable. Eventually more people can be a part of digitalization and use services like 5G internet.
