India to manufacture 500 items by 2025, by 3D printing. ~Preet. The National Strategy for Additive Manufacturing Policy was recently released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Within three years, the strategy intends to boost India's share of global additive manufacturing to 5% and add USD 1 billion to the country's GDP. It also plans to build 50 India-specific material, machine, and software innovations, 100 new additive manufacturing firms, 500 new products, and educate at least 1 lakh new skilled people. The ideas of 'Make in India' and 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan', which urge self-reliance via technological transformation of the production paradigm, are included into the Policy. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is a process that employs materials such as plastics and metals to turn computer-aided design goods into genuine three-dimensional things. 3D printing is the inverse of subtractive manufacturing,