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Saturday, 05 August 2023 06:41
After protests, India delays laptop, tablet import ban by three months Featured
By Sam Varghese
The Indian Government has delayed its move on immediately banning importers of laptops, tablets and some kinds of PCs, giving the industry three months to wind up these practices, following a backlash against an order on Thursday that said the ban would take immediate effect.
In a fresh order on Friday, the government said the ban would now take effect from 1 November, with importers able to clear any ordered consignments uptil 31 October without the need for a licence.
The original order said the ban would also extend to all-in-one PCs and ultra-small form factor PCs and servers.
It said an exemption would be granted for up to 20 items in a single consignment, for research and development, testing, benchmarking and evaluation, repair and return and product development.
But, expectedly, manufacturers and tech industry workers expressed opposition to the sudden move. As a result of this, Deputy IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a tweet that India would provide a “transition period” before implementing the amended import policy.
Q: Why has the @GoI_MeitY finalized new norms for import of IT hardware like Laptops, Servers etc?
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar ?? (@Rajeev_GoI) August 4, 2023
Ans: There will be a transition period for this to be put into effect which will be notified soon.
Pls read ? https://t.co/u5436EA0IG
Chandrasekhar expanded on the reasons for the ban, tweeting: "It is the government's objective to ensure trusted hardware and systems, reduce import dependence and increase domestic manufacturing of this category of products.
"This is not at all about licence raj - it is about regulating imports to ensure trusted and verifiable systems and ensuring the Indian tech ecosystem uses trusted and verified systems only that are imported and/or domestically manufactured trusted systems/products."
Reacting to his tweet, one research analyst, Sandip Sabharwal, wrote: "Suddenly, without notice, imposing restrictions on imports of PCs, laptops and tablets will only hit consumers. This is extremely ad hoc. Even if the government wants to boost domestic production it cannot be done overnight."
Another, Amardeep Singh Sidhu, wrote: "...there is no distinction between personal and business use any more. For skill development to start, hardware and software should be readily available. A large part of our population is self-skilling due to problems in the ecosystem."
And a third, digital strategist Alok Nayak, said: "What a contradictory statement, Mr. Minister! Your assertion to speed up digitalisation while concurrently limiting choices for end users to acquire digital products within a regulated setting appears quite illogical. Have you ever considered the implications of this?"
This is not the first time that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has taken decisions that affect multitudes and put them into effect immediately.
In 2016, Modi announced on TV during prime time on 8 November that 500 and 1000 rupee notes would be withdrawn from circulation and cease to be legal tender in four hours!
This year, the country's Supreme Court justified the decision in a 4-1 verdict.
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