Industry Trends

While the impact of PLI on large manufacturers and MSMEs is evident, a surprising beneficiary is likely to be on-demand manufacturing. Production Linked Incentives (PLI) can propel on-demand manufacturing into the mainstream, given the latter's robust, practical use cases.

With on-demand manufacturing, start-ups focused on technology and product design can outsource prototyping and mass production, and thereby avoid the costs and time-frames associated with setting up massive factories.

For a country with enormous pockets of high population density, India presents unique challenges to the COVID-19 problem, but can also create unique solutions.