PCBs Worth Rs.40,000 Crore to Be Made in India as Jewar Gets Rs.6,750-Crore Electronics Push
01 July 2026: Printed circuit boards (PCBs) worth nearly Rs.40,000 crore, which India currently imports every year, will now be made at home, with Jewar in Uttar Pradesh set to become a major production centre.
On Saturday, 27 June 2026, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Minister for Electronics & IT, Railways and Information & Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw jointly laid the foundation stones for two electronics manufacturing projects worth about Rs 6,750 crore at Yamuna City, Jewar, in Gautam Buddha Nagar district.
Vaishnaw said the facilities will make advanced multi-layer PCBs – one of the most important parts of any modern electronic device. Some of these boards pack 20 to 22 layers of circuitry into an extremely thin structure, he noted, and form the backbone of today’s electronics. Shifting their production to India, he said, will save a large amount of foreign exchange and cut the country’s import dependence.
The two projects
The bigger of the two is a Rs 3,500-crore plant by Amber Enterprises, which will make HVAC components and PCB assemblies. Alongside it sits a Rs.3,250-crore advanced PCB facility run by Ascent-K Circuit – a 70:30 joint venture between Amber’s Ascent Circuits and South Korea’s Korea Circuit Co. (KCC). Ascent-K will produce high-density interconnect (HDI) boards, flexible PCBs and semiconductor substrates, and is supported under the Centre’s Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS), run by MeitY. The plant is being designed as a zero liquid discharge facility that recycles its own water.
Together, the two units are expected to create around 3,000 jobs.
A cluster takes shape
At the same event, Yogi Adityanath laid the foundation stone for the first industrial unit inside the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) in Sector-10 of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA). The cluster is being built across 206 acres at a cost of about Rs 417 crore, including a Central Government contribution of Rs.144 crore. It is one of only two such clusters approved under the EMC 2.0 scheme – the other is in Tamilnadu – and the only dedicated electronics cluster in North India.
Vaishnaw called Jewar the “Silicon Valley of North India,” pointing to infrastructure such as the new Noida International Airport and the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. He also said the proposed Delhi-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna-Siliguri bullet train corridor would reshape connectivity across Uttar Pradesh and act as a catalyst for industrial growth – cutting the Delhi-to-Lucknow trip to about 2 hours 10 minutes, and Jewar-to-Lucknow to roughly 1 hour 40 minutes.
Why it matters
The push fits a wider shift. Uttar Pradesh already accounts for about a quarter of India’s electronics manufacturing and around half of its mobile phone production. Nationally, India has approved 12 semiconductor projects under the India Semiconductor Mission, with a pipeline of roughly Rs 1.64 lakh crore. PCBs have been the missing piece – the “brain” of every device that, until now, India largely bought from abroad.
By making them at Jewar, the country moves from assembling electronics to building their core components – saving foreign exchange, supporting local supply chains, and opening the door to exports of finished electronic products.
