NITI Aayog calls for sector-specific intervention, shift towards demand-side support. India’s production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes have achieved only 28 per cent of their targeted employment generation, even as investment mobilisation has reached 76 per cent of the envisaged target, highlighting the uneven translation of the government’s manufacturing push into job creation, according to a first-of-its-kind assessment of the flagship schemes by NITI Aayog.