DPIIT year-end review shows robust 2025: PLI drives production, while GatiShakti and ULIP streamline India’s logistics.
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) released its year-end review for 2025, detailing substantial achievements across manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and digital infrastructure, cementing India’s push towards self-reliance.
Manufacturing and investment Surge
The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes, implemented across 14 key sectors, continue to drive growth:
- Investment: Actual investment exceeding ₹1.88 lakh crore has been realised as of June 2025.
- Production & Exports: This investment has generated incremental production and sales worth over ₹17 lakh crore, with exports under PLI crossing ₹7.5 lakh crore.
- Employment: The schemes have created more than 12.3 lakh direct and indirect jobs.
Overall industrial output remains steady, with the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) expanding by 3.0 per cent during the April-September 2025-26 period. Gross Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows reached USD 1.1 trillion between April 2000 and June 2025, with provisional Q1 inflows for 2025-26 rising 17 per cent year-on-year to USD 26.61 billion.
Digital logistics and infrastructure
Reforms in the logistics and infrastructure space are streamlining national connectivity:
- GatiShakti: The PM GatiShakti National Master Plan now integrates 57 central ministries and 1,700 data layers, with the platform recently opened for use by the private sector.
- ULIP Growth: The Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP) has integrated 44 systems from 11 ministries, recording over 200 crore API transactions for improved supply chain visibility.
- Corridors: Industrial corridor development saw progress, with 20 major projects approved across 13 states.
Startup ecosystem and ease of business
India’s environment for innovation and trade has seen major enhancements:
- Startup Expansion: A total of 2,01,335 startups have been recognised since the Startup India initiative began in 2016, leading to the creation of over 21 lakh jobs. Nearly half of these recognised startups include at least one woman director.
- ONDC: The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) has processed over 326 million orders cumulatively by October 2025, with daily transactions exceeding 5,90,000.
- Regulatory Reforms: Over 47,000 regulatory compliances have been reduced as of November 2025 to improve the Ease of Doing Business, including the simplification, digitisation, and decriminalisation of numerous provisions.
- Innovation: India’s ranking in the Global Innovation Index improved to 38ᵗʰ in 2025.
The review confirms India’s accelerated path towards becoming a global hub for manufacturing, innovation, and digital trade, backed by robust policy execution.
SOURCE – ANI
