The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has released its 2025 Year-End Review, outlining major achievements across manufacturing, startups, logistics, ease of doing business, intellectual property, and foreign investment. The review shows steady progress in India’s push toward becoming a global manufacturing and innovation hub.
A key highlight of the year has been the continued progress of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes, launched for 14 strategic sectors with an outlay of ₹1.97 lakh crore. As of June 2025, these schemes have attracted actual investments of over ₹1.88 lakh crore, generated incremental production worth more than ₹17 lakh crore, and created an estimated 12.3 lakh direct and indirect jobs. Exports under PLI have crossed ₹7.5 lakh crore, led by electronics, pharmaceuticals, telecom and networking products, and food processing.
India’s startup ecosystem also continued to expand. DPIIT has officially recognized 2,01,335 startups since the launch of the Startup India initiative in 2016, with these ventures creating more than 21 lakh jobs. Women-led entrepreneurship has seen remarkable growth, with over 48 percent of recognised startups having at least one woman director.
ONDC, the Open Network for Digital Commerce initiative aimed at democratising e-commerce, has also seen rapid adoption. By October 2025, more than 326 million orders had been processed on the platform, with an average of 5.9 lakh transactions per day. In the same period, 18.2 million orders were processed in October alone.
The One District One Product (ODOP) initiative continued its expansion, with more than 1,240 products identified across 775 districts. Under PM Ekta Malls, which provide states assistance to promote ODOP products, 27 states have received approvals for their Detailed Project Reports, and construction has begun in 25 of them.
In the area of ease of doing business, DPIIT reported significant progress through multiple reform frameworks including the Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP), B-Ready Assessment, Jan Vishwas Act, and the Reducing Compliance Burden (RCB) initiative. More than 47,000 compliances have been reduced so far, including simplification of 16,108, digitisation of 22,287, decriminalisation of 4,458, and removal of 4,270 redundant compliances. The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 – introduced in the Lok Sabha in August and now with a Select Committee – proposes decriminalising 288 provisions across sectors and amending 67 others to improve ease of living.
At the national level, the National Single Window System (NSWS) has processed 11,56,835 applications to date, granting 8,29,750 approvals, including over 11,500 approvals in November 2025 alone. BRAP 2024 results have been released, and BRAP 2026 was officially rolled out in November.
In the logistics sector, the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan saw major expansion. A total of 57 ministries and departments are now onboarded, with 1,700 data layers integrated into the GIS-based platform. The system is now open to private-sector users through a newly developed Query-Based Analytics mechanism. The PM GatiShakti District Master Plan, launched in 28 aspirational districts, is now being expanded to all 112 aspirational districts. The National Logistics Policy continued to support the development of Sectoral Plans for Efficient Logistics, with plans for coal and cement already finalised and others for steel, pharma, fertilizers, and food sectors nearing completion. Twenty-seven states and union territories have notified their respective State Logistics Policies.
The Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP), a cornerstone of the National Logistics Policy, has grown significantly. ULIP now integrates 44 systems from 11 ministries through 136 APIs covering more than 2,000 data fields, with over 1,700 companies registered and more than 200 applications developed. More than 200 crore API transactions have already taken place, and more than 20 states have started using ULIP APIs to streamline movement under their public distribution systems. Meanwhile, the Logistics Data Bank continues to provide end-to-end visibility for EXIM container movement across 18 ports and 5,800 railway stations.
Industrial development under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme (NICDP) progressed with major milestones. The Prime Minister laid the foundation stones for the Krishnapatnam Industrial Area in January 2025 and Karnataka’s Kopparthy and Orvakal Industrial Areas in October. A total of 430 industrial plots covering 4,552 acres have been allotted so far across four operational greenfield industrial nodes. Overall, 20 major projects across 13 states have been approved under NICDP.
India’s industrial sector showed steady improvement, with the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by 3 percent during April-September 2025-26. The Eight Core Industries – which together hold over 40 percent weight in IIP-registered 2.5 percent cumulative growth between April and October.
On intellectual property, India continued to strengthen its position as a global innovation leader. Domestic patent filings increased by 425 percent between 2014 and 2024, and Indian innovators recorded the highest growth among the top 20 origins in 2024. India also ranked fourth globally in trademark filings and seventh in design filings in 2024. Digital reforms in IP administration – such as AI/ML search tools for trademarks, an IP diagnostic tool in regional languages, an open-house grievance portal, and the IP Saarthi chatbot – have improved transparency and access. India’s rank in the Global Innovation Index rose to 38th in 2025, up from 81st in 2015.
The Project Monitoring Group (PMG), responsible for expediting large infrastructure projects, has onboarded 3,022 projects worth ₹76.4 lakh crore as of November 2025. Since inception, PMG has resolved 8,121 issues in 1,761 projects, with 403 issues resolved in 250 projects during 2025 alone. The mechanism was upgraded this year to a structured five-tier escalation framework to streamline issue resolution.
India’s foreign direct investment inflow also recorded strong performance. Between April 2000 and June 2025, the country received a total of USD 1.1 trillion in gross FDI. Annual FDI inflow has more than doubled over the past decade, rising from USD 36.05 billion in 2013-14 to USD 80.62 billion in 2024-25. During the first quarter of 2025-26, India received USD 26.61 billion in FDI, marking a 17 percent increase from the previous year. Of the USD 1,071.96 billion FDI inflow received since 2000, nearly 70 percent came between 2014 and 2025.
