New Delhi, July 15 -- India's electronics manufacturing sector has created nearly 25 lakh jobs over the past decade, with women accounting for nearly 70 per cent of the direct workforce in mobile phone manufacturing, according to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

The ministry said the sector has emerged as one of the country's fastest-growing sources of industrial employment, driven by expanding electronics and mobile phone manufacturing under initiatives such as Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat.

According to the ministry, the mobile manufacturing ecosystem currently supports around 12 lakh direct and indirect jobs across the value chain. The PLI Scheme for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing has gene...