Govt to design new policy on electronics, says IT Minister

New Delhi: The government today said it is planning to come out with a new electronics as well as a software product policy and will set up innovative zones for start-ups.

"We will be shortly laying down the new electronics policy because between the old policy and (now), India under Narendra Modi has changed completely. Therefore, to boost electronics manufacturing, we will come up with new policy," Law and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said.

The first National Policy on Electronics was formulated in 2012 and approved by the Cabinet in 2013. Prasad said the new policy will look at growth areas in electronics manufacturing segment. "There is a need to look at the inward software market. Therefore we will come up with a new software product policy and we are going to have a framework for data security and protection policy," Prasad said.

He said there is consensus between the government and the industry to explore the intersection between Digital India and start-ups for which the government will set up an innovative zone.