About CiPD
A primary goal of the centre is to bring together expertise from many research and
expertise silos and foster innovation by creating indigenized product platforms that can
help the industry to bring solutions to the market faster and at a significantly lower design
cost and risk.
India designed and manufactured leading-edge electronics until the mid-1990s. However,
today, electronics manufacturing is largely limited to assembling, soldering, and packaging
products - which is a very low-value addition. Design capability is not developed and is
almost dying out, and due to that, there is much more dependency on electronics imports
(Completely Knock Down (CKD) and Semi Knock Down (SKD) imports). This has a significant
impact on the Economy and Governance.