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Make in India
Claim
Lacks context
Delivery
Partly delivered
One of the three commitments was delivered, one was made impossible to test, and one was never announced. Decriminalisation happened: the Companies (Amendment) Acts of 2019 and 2020 converted dozens of minor procedural offences to civil penalties, and the Jan Vishwas Act of 2023 extended the approach across other statutes. The top-50 ranking cannot be reached or measured because the World Bank discontinued the Doing Business report in 2020 — the ministry confirms this. And no new industrial policy has been announced; the last one dates from 1991. On the underlying objective, manufacturing's share of gross value added was 14.7 per cent in 2022-23 and 14.8 per cent in 2025-26.
“Top 50 Ranking in Ease of Doing Business Index — In the last four years, India has climbed 65 places in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index. We will further work in this direction to take the country's ranking into the top 50… Strengthening Companies Act — In order to incentivize compliance of law and ease of doing business, we will amend the Companies Act to impose civil liability for technical and procedural defaults of a minor nature thus unclogging the majority of the cases from the courts… New Industrial Policy — We will announce a new industrial policy to improve competitiveness of manufacturing and services.”No CAG performance audit published
No CAG performance audit covering this scheme has been published. The absence of an audit is not evidence that the claim is either accurate or inaccurate.
No CAG audit of Make in India or of the ease-of-doing-business programme has been tabled in a report we hold. The national accounts figures are the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation's.
No audit period to plot — no CAG performance audit covering this scheme has been published.
Manufacturing 14.8 per cent of gross value added in 2025-26, against 14.7 per cent in 2022-23
The World Bank discontinued the Doing Business report in 2020 and India's own Business Reforms Action Plan was last assessed for 2022 with state rankings discontinued, so no current measure of the ranking commitment exists.
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3990, GVA Share of the Manufacturing Sector — answer by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
A note on the claim. This entry was imported as a 2014 promise to take manufacturing to 25 per cent of GDP and create 100 million jobs. Neither figure is in the 2014 manifesto, which does not mention Make in India at all — the campaign was launched in September 2014, five months after it. The 25 per cent target comes from the National Manufacturing Policy of 2011. The entry has been moved to 2019, where the manifesto does have a Make in India section with three testable commitments.
The ranking. "In the last four years, India has climbed 65 places in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index. We will further work in this direction to take the country's ranking into the top 50." India reached 63rd in the 2020 edition. It never reached 50th, and it never will: the Ministry of Commerce and Industry confirms that "World Bank had discontinued its Doing Business Report in 2020", after an independent review found data irregularities in earlier editions. India's own substitute measure, the Business Reforms Action Plan, was last assessed for 2022 and its state rankings were discontinued. A commitment tied to a ranking that no longer exists cannot be met or measured.
The Companies Act. "we will amend the Companies Act to impose civil liability for technical and procedural defaults of a minor nature thus unclogging the majority of the cases from the courts." This was done. The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019 and the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2020 recategorised a large number of minor procedural offences from criminal to civil penalty, moving them out of special courts into an in-house adjudication mechanism. The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2023 extended the same approach to dozens of other central laws. On the promise as written, delivered.
The industrial policy. "We will announce a new industrial policy to improve competitiveness of manufacturing and services with an eye on Industry 4.0." No new industrial policy has been announced. A draft was circulated in 2017 and never finalised; India's operative industrial policy statement remains that of 1991. Production-linked incentive schemes, the National Logistics Policy and Gati Shakti have done some of the work a policy would have framed, but the document promised does not exist.
The underlying objective. All three commitments sit under a heading about making India a manufacturing power. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation's figures on the new 2022-23 base series put manufacturing at 14.7 per cent of gross value added in 2022-23 and 14.8 per cent in 2025-26 — flat.
One of three delivered, one rendered untestable, one not attempted, and no movement in the aggregate they were aimed at. Our verdict is lacks context.
BJP Sankalp Patra 2019 — Lok Sabha election manifesto
“Through this Sankalp Patra, you would get a glimpse of the challenges of the yesteryears, the indomitable efforts made by 130 crore Indians to overcome those challenges and our collective vision for the future… There are two commitments that I am extremely passionate about — doubling of farmer income and housing for all, by the year 2022.”
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3990, GVA Share of the Manufacturing Sector — answer by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
“The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has revised the base year of the National Accounts Statistics from 2011-12 to 2022-23, and the revised series was released in February 2026. As per the revised series (2022-23 base), the contribution of the Manufacturing sector to India's Gross Value Added (GVA) at current prices and the growth rate of Manufacturing GVA at constant prices during the period 2022-23 to 2025-26 are given below: Share of Manufacturing in total GVA (in %) — 2022-23: 14.7; 2023-24: 14.7; 2024-25 (FRE): 14.5; 2025-26 (PE): 14.8.”
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2676, Business Reforms Action Plan — answer by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
“Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) does not maintain rankings for States/UTs on Ease of Doing Business. As part of the DPIIT Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) exercise, States/UTs are assessed on the basis of their implementation of designated reform parameters into following four percentage-based categories: 1. Top Achievers – score above 90%, 2. Achievers – score between 80% to 90%, 3. Fast Movers – score between 70% to 80%, and 4. Aspirers – score below 70%… Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) is assessed through a structured three-step methodology comprising evidence submission, user data collection, and independent user feedback… In the BRAP 2022, these categories were determined through 100% feedback. In BRAP 2024, 30% weightage has been assigned to evidence submission and 70% to user feedback… Ease of doing business ranking was done by World Bank through Doing Business Report from 2002 to 2020… The BRAP ranking across States has been discontinued after the initial years. World Bank had discontinued its Doing Business Report in 2020… The latest assessment under the BRAP was conducted for the year 2022.”