Key government departments, such as pharmaceutical, electronics and info-r-mation technology, and new and renewable energy, have sought approval of addit-ional funds for their production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes, following a better-than-exp-ected response from industry and also to give a fur-ther leg up to domestic manufacturing.

       An empowered group of secretaries headed by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba is likely to soon consider these demands. A panel comprising NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and officials from the Department for Promotion of Industry and ...