Published on 23 Mar 2025
• As per latest reports, the semiconductor Design-Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme has approved only seven start-ups, which is far below its five-year target of 100.
• The DLI Scheme was announced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information (MeitY) in 2021.
• Through this scheme financial incentives and design infrastructure support are extended to domestic companies, startups and MSMEs for development and deployment of semiconductor and semiconductor linked design for over a period of 5 years.
• C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), a scientific society operating under MeitY, is the nodal agency for implementation of the DLI scheme.
• It aims to nurture at least 20 domestic companies per year involved in semiconductor design and facilitate them to achieve turnover of more than ₹1500 Crore in the next 5 years.
The scheme has three components :
Chip Design infrastructure support,
Product Design Linked Incentive and
Deployment Linked Incentive.
Design Linked Scheme
Electronics
Semiconductor
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