New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) The Centre on Friday allayed consumer fears about the notification on restricting the imports of PCs, laptops and tablets, saying the objective is to ensure trusted hardware and systems and increase domestic manufacturing in these hardware categories.
Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said that India is becoming one of the world’s fastest growing markets for digital products including laptops and servers etc.
“It is the government’s objective to ensure trusted hardware and systems, reduce import dependance and increase domestic manufacturing of this category of products,” he posted on Twitter (now X).Commenting on a Twitter user’s post which stated that the import restriction on PCs, laptops and tablets will only hit consumers, the Minister said that rapid digitalisation/cloudification of our economy and rapid growth of our digital economy is fuelling demand growth.“This is not at all about license raj.
It is about regulating imports to ensure trusted and verifiable systems and ensuring the India tech ecosystem uses trusted and verified systems only that are imported and/or domestically manufactured trusted systems/products,” he explained.
