India to ban smartphones under Rs 12,000 from Chinese brands? Govt clarifies

Smartphone firms like Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and others can lastly heave a sigh of aid as India at the moment doesn’t have any plans to ban the sale of telephones underneath Rs 12,000. As per experiences, the federal government has requested the smartphone makers to extend exports from India. Additionally, no proposals had been made to ban the sale of smartphones beneath Rs 12,000, the union minister of knowledge and know-how, Rajeev Chandrashekhar has revealed. The IT minister additional added that although Indian firms have an important function to play within the nation’s digital ecosystem, this doesn’t imply that overseas manufacturers ought to be excluded to make means for the Indian firms. “Solely concern that we have now raised and carried out very transparently with a few of the Chinese language manufacturers is that we have now stated that our expectation is that they may do extra exports, ” Chandrashekhar advised the PTI. “Their provide chain, specifically parts provide chain, should be extra clear and way more open… (On) the opposite narrative about crowding them out from a specific phase (sub-Rs 12,000) of the market, we have no proposal and I’m not positive the place it got here from,” he added.

Earlier, Livemint claimed that India is planning to ban the sale of Chinese language smartphones underneath Rs 12,000 within the nation to bolster the gross sales of homegrown manufacturers like Jio, Lava, Micromax and others. Nevertheless, the federal government has denied the claims for now.Apparently, the Chinese language smartphone firms at the moment dominate the sub-12,000 phase in India.

The federal government is maintaining a detailed eye on Chinese language firms and the current raids on Oppo and Xiaomi are testimony to the truth that the businesses are underneath the scanner.Within the current previous, the workplaces of some Chinese language smartphone makers had been raided they usually had been even charged by the ED over alleged tax evasion.

To recall, the federal government banned near 50 Chinese language apps in 2020. The apps that had been banned additionally included TikTok, PUBG and plenty of others. PUBG did make a comeback in India with a distinct title, however just lately the federal government ordered Google and Apple to take away Battlegrounds Cellular India (BGMI) app or the Indian model of PUBG Cellular from the Play retailer in addition to the Apple App retailer. The app is now not accessible for obtain in India.

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