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Category: Industrial policy
‘India’s roadmap to EVs: Through the lens of 3 state policies’
by Saon Ray, Vasundhara Thakur and Samiha Singh In this blog we present findings from a paper that traces the evolution of India’s industrial policy, focusing on the policy towards the electric vehicle industry. India’s steady transition towards electric vehicles is being fuelled by government policies both at the central and state level. While […]
Solar cell, module duty hike seems badly timed
Article in The Hindu Business Line on 7th July:
EV Value Chain Needs To Harness Industrial, Investment Policy Linkages
By Saon Ray, Vasundhara Thakur and Samiha Singh. Mobility Outlook Commentary, 9th June 2022. In this article, we discuss how in addition to the Centre, several states have rolled out EV policies to increase the domestic manufacturing of the EV supply chain and catalyse a robust and self-reliant EV ecosystem in India. Link: […]
Powering up electric vehicle adoption in India
by Saon Ray, Vasundhara Thakur, and Samiha Singh The Union Budget 2022-23 made several announcements regarding electric vehicles. In her Union Budget 2022-23 address, the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, underlined the government’s initiatives for fostering the Indian charging infrastructure ecosystem. A key highlight was the announcement of a battery swapping […]
Horizontal, vertical, and GVC oriented policies in Budget 2021
The Union Budget of 2021-2022 has introduced many schemes. In this blog, I examine these policies in terms of horizontal, vertical, or GVC oriented. GVC oriented policies are those “industrial policies that leverage international supply chain linkages or dynamics to improve a country’s role in global or regional value chains” (Gereffi and Sturgeon, 2013). Gereffi […]