India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has closed 2025 with a sweeping set of achievements that underline the country’s expanding industrial, manufacturing and innovation landscape. From record-breaking startup growth to accelerated infrastructure planning under PM GatiShakti, the year highlights how policy reforms and digital integration are shaping a more competitive, future-ready economic ecosystem.
Manufacturing Push Gains Momentum
India’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes—spread across 14 strategic sectors—remain a central pillar of the nation’s drive toward self-reliance. With an outlay of ₹1.97 lakh crore, the schemes have already attracted over ₹1.88 lakh crore in investments by June 2025. This push has translated into incremental production above ₹17 lakh crore and generated more than 12.3 lakh direct and indirect jobs. Export performance has been particularly strong, with sectors such as electronics, pharmaceuticals, telecom and food processing contributing to over ₹7.5 lakh crore in outbound shipments.
Startup India Continues Its Ascent
The Startup India initiative has delivered one of its strongest years yet. DPIIT has now recognized more than 2,01,000 startups, collectively creating upwards of 21 lakh jobs nationwide. Notably, women leaders are reshaping India’s innovation landscape—over 48% of recognized startups have at least one woman director, reflecting the rising force of Nari Shakti in entrepreneurship.
Digital Commerce and District-Level Growth
The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) has emerged as a major national platform powering inclusive e-commerce. By October 2025, ONDC had processed more than 326 million orders, with daily transactions now surpassing 5.9 lakh.
Complementing this, the One District One Product (ODOP) initiative continues to build regional economic strength, identifying more than 1,240 products across 775 districts. Under PM Ekta Malls, 27 states have approved project plans, and construction is underway in most of them.
Ease of Doing Business: Deep Structural Reforms
India’s efforts to streamline business operations have reached new depth through the Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP), the Reducing Compliance Burden (RCB) program, and large-scale legal reforms. More than 47,000 compliances have been eliminated or simplified, including 4,458 provisions that have been decriminalized.
A major overhaul of State Single Window Systems has helped accelerate investment approvals, with over 8.29 lakh clearances issued through the National Single Window System (NSWS) so far.
GatiShakti: Transforming Infrastructure Planning
PM GatiShakti continues to redefine how India plans infrastructure. With 57 ministries and departments integrated and more than 1,700 data layers uploaded, the platform supports seamless multimodal connectivity planning. The system has now been opened to private-sector users through query-based analytics, enabling deeper participation from developers, consultants and researchers.
Logistics Modernization Accelerates
The National Logistics Policy (NLP) is driving state-level logistics reforms and sector-based efficiency plans covering coal, cement and several other industries. Meanwhile, the Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP)—now connected to 44 systems via 136 APIs—has become a powerful digital backbone, enabling over 200 crore API transactions and supporting more than 1,700 companies.
Industrial Corridor Expansion
Under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme, 20 major projects across 13 states are underway. Foundation stones for Krishnapatnam, Kopparthy and Orvakal Industrial Areas were laid in 2025, pushing forward next-generation industrial city development. Over 4,500 acres have already been allotted across the first set of completed greenfield nodes.
Industry Performance and Innovation Surge
Industrial production remained resilient, with the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing 3% during April–September 2025–26. The Eight Core Industries Index grew 2.5% in the April–October period.
Intellectual property indicators reflect India’s strengthening innovation system. Domestic patent filings rose 425% over the past decade, while trademark and design filings have seen record growth. India now ranks 38th in the Global Innovation Index 2025—its best performance yet.
Project Monitoring and Investment Inflows
The Project Monitoring Group (PMG) has become a central mechanism for clearing regulatory bottlenecks. More than 3,022 major projects worth ₹76.4 lakh crore are now on the PMG portal. Since inception, 8,121 issues across 1,761 projects have been resolved.
Foreign direct investment continues to flow strongly—India has received USD 1.1 trillion in FDI since 2000. Annual FDI has more than doubled in the past decade, reaching USD 80.62 billion in FY 2024–25.