The Government of India is taking several measures for promoting the growth of the manufacturing sector in India. The Make In India campaign has been initiated with the view of driving investment in this sector by creating an environment suitable for sustained growth of manufacturing, which will lead to all-round economic benefits including employment generation and income growth. The Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech mentioning this can be seen here and his speech at the launch of the Make In India campaign can be seen here.

This requires a number of steps to be taken to ensure that investors are suitably incentivized for job-creation as well as participating in the skill upgradation of the labour force employed by them.

Suggestions received from various Ministries and other stakeholders during Government-level discussions in this regard can be seen here. These suggestions include financial incentives under the Income Tax Act, labour laws, tax incentives and subsidies for skilling of employees, upgrading and improving the employment exchanges, etc.

We invite comments regarding these ideas and suggestions regarding other incentives that can be provided by the government for employment generation in the manufacturing sector. Your suggestions may be provided in the comment box below or attached as a PDF. We request that the suggestions may be explained in sufficient detail with information about the implementation mechanism and the likely impact.

The last date for submission of the entries is 2nd December, 2015.