New Delhi, March 30 -- India wants electronics manufacturers to move beyond assembly, and has asked companies to build in-house product design capabilities and adopt global engineering standards, as the country aims to become a hub for deep-tech manufacturing and exports.

Union electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday gave companies 15 days to come up with clear product design plans and six-sigma engineering certification programmes, warning that failure to comply could result in incentives for approved projects being withheld or cancelled altogether.

"We'll have to get into electronics, components and chip designs, which should be our primary focus. Anyone not making a move ahead will be weeded out-we ...