New Delhi: At the inaugural session of the India Mobile Congress 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “India Mobile Congress and the telecom sector, demonstrates India’s success and the power of the vision of self-reliance. People used to make fun of the concept of ‘Make in India’. Those living in suspicion and doubt used to question, ‘how can India make advanced technology?’, because in their time, it took many decades for new technology to reach India. The country has answered that. The country that was once struggling with 2G, today in the same country, 5G has reached nearly every district.”
India’s tech revolution in the last decade has been characterised by speed, scale and policy reforms. Our Government believes in being facilitators who further innovation instead of being mere regulators. pic.twitter.com/6miNBa2Zp0
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 8, 2025
The Prime Minister was speaking at the opening of the ninth edition of the three day technology summit, at Yashobhoomi. PM Modi went on to say, “Compared to 2014, domestic electronics production has increased by six times, and by 28 times when it comes to mobile phone manufacturing, and when it comes to exports, by 127 times. Over the previous decade, the mobile phone manufacturing sector has directly created lakhs of jobs. Today, 45 domestic companies are involved in the supply chain of a major smartphone manufacturer. This has produced 3.5 lakh jobs in the country. This is not the data of just one company, there are many in the country that are manufacturing at scale.”
India Mobile Congress 2025
At the opening ceremony, PM Modi was presented with a token with miniatures of domestically manufactured advanced technologies by the Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The conference has a vast exhibition floor showcasing the cutting-edge applications of telecom services, included automated industrial and agricultural robots, connected smart vehicles, mixed reality headsets and cloud computing at scale. There are also panel discussions and industry keynotes by multiple stakeholders across the country.