Rajasthan enters semiconductor manufacturing with India’s first SME-led chip facility
Bhiwadi cluster attracts over ₹1,200 crore investments as India deepens semiconductor push
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and environment minister Bhupender Yadav virtually inaugurate the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) developed by ELCINA at Salarpur, Khushkhera in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan, along with the Semiconductor ATMP/OSAT facility of Sahasra Semiconductors Pvt Ltd on Friday.
New Delhi: Rajasthan has entered India’s fast-growing semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem with the inauguration of the state’s first semiconductor facility at Bhiwadi, marking a major milestone in the country’s electronics and chip manufacturing ambitions.
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw virtually inaugurated the Semiconductor ATMP/OSAT facility of Sahasra Semiconductors Pvt Ltd along with the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) developed by ELCINA at Salarpur, Khushkhera in Bhiwadi.
The semiconductor unit is being described as India’s first SME-led semiconductor manufacturing facility to commence commercial chip production. The plant has been developed with an investment of more than ₹150 crore under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s SPECS scheme.
Calling it a historic day for Rajasthan, Vaishnaw said semiconductors had become a strategically critical industry globally from a geopolitical perspective. He said India’s electronics manufacturing sector had grown six-fold over the past 12 years to nearly ₹13 lakh crore, while exports rose to around ₹4.24 lakh crore.
“Mobile phones have now become India’s top export commodity,” the minister said, attributing the growth to focused policy initiatives under Digital India, Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat.
The facility will package memory chips used in products such as Micro SD cards and flash storage devices, besides manufacturing LED driver ICs, eSIMs and RFID products.
Spread across 57,000 sq ft, the unit currently has an annual packaging capacity of 60 million semiconductor units and plans to scale up production to nearly 400–600 million units annually over the next two to three years.
More than 60 percent of the production is already being exported to international markets including the United States, Germany, France, Eastern Europe, China and Nepal.
Alongside the semiconductor unit, the ELCINA Electronics Manufacturing Cluster has emerged as a major electronics manufacturing hub in northern India. Developed over 50.3 acres with a project cost of ₹46.09 crore, the cluster has already attracted planned investments exceeding ₹1,200 crore from 20 companies.
Eleven companies are currently operational in the cluster with cumulative investments of more than ₹900 crore, generating employment for over 2,700 people.
The cluster houses companies engaged in semiconductor packaging, electronic components, RFID technologies, EV components and industrial electronics manufacturing.
Rajasthan chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said the state government had introduced a Rajasthan Semiconductor Policy in March 2026 aimed at developing the region near Delhi NCR into a manufacturing hub for advanced electronics and semiconductor industries.
The semiconductor facility is also expected to support workforce development through skill training programmes in collaboration with industry bodies and technical institutes.
