Saturday, October 10
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) plans to review its public procurement policy (PPP) with preference to the Make-in-India (MII) order issued in October last year, in a bid to incorporate more products and likely relax local sourcing requirements.While issuing the guidelines for the PPP Make-in-India order last year, the DoT had identified 36 products that must have over 50% local value addition to be eligible for procurement by the Central government and its affiliated entities.Since 5G products were excluded from the list, the DoT had incorporated an enabling provision to review the products from time to time.Also Read: Musk's Starlink clears major India hurdle; in line for satcom licence after agreeing to new set of conditionsAs per the DoT’s notice seeking stakeholders’ co
