Twelve years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled it on 25 September 2014, Make in India has grown from a campaign slogan into the structural spine of India's industrial policy — and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav marked the anniversary on Friday, 25 September 2026, with a salute to that journey.

Writing in Hindi on X, Dr. Yadav offered congratulations to the nation on completing 'गौरवशाली 12 वर्ष' ('glorious 12 years') of Make in India, crediting Prime Minister Modi's leadership for giving India 'a new identity in manufacturing, innovation and investment.' He specifically invoked the 'Make in India — Make for the World' vision, describing it as the pathway that has opened global markets to Indian products.

From a 2014 launch to a manufacturing identity

Make in India was launched on 25 September 2014 with a single, clear ambition: raise manufacturing's share of GDP and create large-scale employment. The logo — a striding lion made entirely of cogs — became one of the most recognised symbols of the Modi government's economic pitch to global investors. Over the following decade, the scheme expanded well beyond its original scope, pulling in sectors from defence and aerospace to mobile phones and pharmaceuticals.

The 2020 Atmanirbhar Bharat push deepened that foundation, adding a self-reliance dimension that reframed foreign investment not as dependency but as a lever for domestic capability-building. Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes — rolled out across more than a dozen sectors including electronics, automobiles and specialty chemicals — became the operational instrument that turned the Make in India promise into factory-floor reality.

The 'Make for the World' pivot and Viksit Bharat's industrial ambition

Dr. Yadav's post highlights a phrase that has gained currency in recent years: 'Make for the World.' The formulation is significant — it signals a deliberate shift from import substitution alone toward export competitiveness and integration into global value chains. India's positioning as an alternative manufacturing hub, particularly in electronics and pharmaceuticals, has driven this pivot.

Both threads — domestic self-reliance and global export reach — now feed into the government's Viksit Bharat (Developed India) vision, which sets 2047 as the horizon for India's emergence as a fully developed economy. For Madhya Pradesh, a state that has aggressively courted investment through its own Global Investors Summit, the anniversary is also a moment to claim a share of that national industrial narrative.

As the next Annual Survey of Industries data and potential PLI expansions in the coming Union Budget loom on the horizon, the 12-year milestone is less a finish line than a checkpoint — one that measures how far the factory floor has come, and how far it still has to go to deliver on the 'Viksit Bharat' promise.