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Mr. Mathew George, Executive Director, United India Insurance Company Limited, on Reframing Insurance for the SMEs of Tomorrow India’s SMEs…
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India Makes the Phones. Can It Now Capture More of the Value?
India’s mobile-phone manufacturing story has come a long way in a relatively short period. A decade ago, India depended heavily…
Lean Manufacturing: Why Indian MSMEs Need to Make Efficiency a Competitive Advantage
Lean manufacturing has long been associated with the production floors of large Japanese companies and global automotive giants. But the…
India’s Manufacturing Moment: What NITI Aayog’s 12-Sector Roadmap Says About Building a Global Industrial Base
India’s manufacturing ambition is entering a more demanding phase. For years, the central question was whether India could increase manufacturing…
₹69,548 Crore, 106 Projects: How ECMS Is Deepening India’s Electronics Manufacturing Base
India’s electronics manufacturing strategy is entering a more important phase. The focus is shifting from expanding assembly capacity to building…
The Box Behind Global Trade: Why India’s Container Manufacturing Push Matters for Its MSME Economy
A shipping container is one of the least glamorous pieces of global trade infrastructure. At its simplest, it is a…
Parliament Passes Taxation Laws Amendment Bill: Why India’s Electronics Manufacturing SMEs Should Be Paying Attention
Parliament’s passage of the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 marks more than the replacement of an ordinance issued…
Can ZED Become India’s Most Important Manufacturing Reform for MSMEs?
For much of the past three decades, India’s manufacturing story has largely been told through the language of scale. Larger…
How India’s ₹10,371 Crore AI Mission Is Expanding AI Access for MSMEs
Artificial intelligence is often discussed through the lens of breakthrough technologies large language models, GenAI, autonomous agents and billion-dollar valuations….
Beyond Factory Floors: Why PwC Says India’s Next Manufacturing Revolution Will Be Won Through Intelligence, Not Scale
The most common metrics for measuring manufacturing competitiveness are production capacity, labour availability, capital investment and export volumes. Companies expanded…