Where to buy electronic components in India

This page is for someone in India with a parts list and a budget. It covers the websites, the import route, and the bazaars.

It isn't a price comparison. Prices move every week and we won't print one we can't keep true. What doesn't move much is the shape of each seller: where it ships from, when shipping turns free, whether you get a GST invoice, and who pays customs. That is what the table below records.

The Indian maker stores

These four sell what hobby projects and college labs are made of: Arduino and ESP32 boards, sensor breakouts, motor drivers, servos, batteries, jumper wires. They ship domestically, in rupees, with a GST invoice or at least GST shown on the bill, and there's no customs step anywhere.

What they mostly aren't is a franchised channel for branded semiconductors. A module is a module; if it works on the bench, it works. A bare op-amp or MOSFET is a different matter, because you can't see where it came from. More on that below.

Robu.in

Robu is run by MACFOS Limited and ships from Pune. Same-day delivery covers Pune pin codes only. Its help desk puts free shipping at ₹999, with ₹49 standard below that and five to seven working days for either. Blue Dart air starts at ₹99 and quotes three to five days. The shipping policy says 99 % of orders leave within 24 hours.

Batteries go by surface transport, so the help page adds a day or so for standard shipping and more for free shipping. Plan around that if your order includes a Li-ion cell. Robu's help desk says a GST invoice goes to every customer once the order is placed.

Our take: The default for maker parts, and the ₹999 line is easy to reach on a real project. Report a damaged or wrong item fast: its refund policy gives two days from delivery.

Robokits India

Robokits is in Gandhinagar, founded in 2007, and describes itself as a research, development and assembly house for robotics. It designs and sells its own boards and kits, which is the reason to go there.

There is no free-shipping threshold. Its conditions page says delivery is charged on every order not collected in person, and the charge is worked out at checkout. Pay before 4 pm and in-stock orders ship that working day. It publishes GST input credit against a GSTIN entered at checkout, and COD up to ₹20,000.

Our take: Go for its own robotics hardware. For generic modules, the delivery charge on every order usually tips the balance to a store with a threshold.

Probots

Probots is in Bengaluru. Its about page names it an official Indian distributor for Benewake and YDLidar, and says its Raspberry Pi stock comes from official distributors. Prices are displayed as base price plus GST.

Free delivery starts at ₹4,999, the highest line among the maker stores; below it standard delivery is ₹99 and express ₹199. The shipping policy gives one to ten days for standard and one to three for express. Its terms page says one to fifteen days, so the two pages disagree.

Our take: The place for lidar and ranging sensors, where the official-distributor line matters. For a small mixed order, the ₹4,999 threshold works against it.

ElectronicsComp

ElectronicsComp is in Bangalore and sells the usual maker range. The free-delivery line, ₹499, is on its homepage banner rather than its shipping policy page. Its delivery page says four to seven working days anywhere in India. COD costs ₹35 flat. We found nothing published about GSTIN at checkout or input credit.

Our take: The lowest free-delivery threshold here and a slower quoted delivery. Fine for a small order that isn't urgent. If you need input credit, ask before you order.

Amazon.in

Amazon is in the table because everyone uses it, not because it's a component store. Standard delivery is free from ₹499 for non-Prime customers on Amazon-fulfilled items, and ₹40 per item below that; Amazon labels those reduced fees a limited-time offer. Only listings marked "GST invoice" come with one, and input credit runs through Amazon Business.

Our take: Good for soldering wire, flux, a multimeter, a cutting mat. Poor for an IC, because the listing tells you nothing about where the part came from.

The distributors, Indian and imported

Evelta

Evelta ships from a Mumbai warehouse and lists more than 18,000 components in stock. It names itself an authorised Radxa distributor, and its FAQ states the products are genuine and original. For anything else, the manufacturer's own distributor list is the check (see avoiding fakes).

Shipping is free over ₹1,000, counted on the subtotal before GST, and ₹45 plus GST below that. Most orders ship within 24 hours and arrive in two to five business days. You add a GSTIN at checkout for a business invoice. COD is offered below ₹5,000.

Our take: The first place we'd look for a branded IC by part number. When it has the part, a domestic invoice and a two-to-five-day delivery beat any import.

element14 India

element14's India site prices in rupees. Some stock sits in a Bangalore warehouse; the rest comes from its Asia-Pacific warehouse in seven to eight days.

Orders below ₹7,000, before tax, carry a delivery charge. The clause writes it as "Rs.200/-" and then, in words, "three hundred only", so check the checkout rather than trust either. Prices are shown ex-tax, and the terms say taxes and duties are added at despatch and paid by the customer.

Our take: Filter by Bangalore stock first. That is the fast, simple case. Past that, it behaves like an importer who has done the paperwork, and it bills you for it.

Mouser and DigiKey

Both ship from the USA, both price in rupees, and at first glance both charge ₹1,200 to deliver a small order. The difference is who pays customs, and it matters more than the ₹1,200.

DigiKey delivers free from ₹7,000, charges ₹1,200 below that, and says most packages to India arrive in four days. Its incoterms are CPT: duty, customs and taxes are due on delivery. The courier collects them from you, on top of what you paid DigiKey.

Mouser shows a flat ₹1,200 DHL rate and publishes no free threshold for India. It offers two invoice types. The Standard Invoice is FCA, and duty is yours at delivery. The GST Business Invoice is DDP, where Mouser pays customs and duties, but it needs a valid GSTIN, a business address in India, INR, and payment by net terms or wire transfer. A card-paying hobbyist gets the Standard Invoice.

Our take: For a GST-registered business, Mouser's DDP invoice is the easiest import on this page: one price, no knock from the courier. For everyone else, both are fine, provided you treat the checkout total as the price before tax, not the price.

LCSC

LCSC ships from China through DHL, UPS, FedEx and several postal lines, priced by weight, method and destination. There's no standing free-shipping threshold, only monthly promotions. Its terms are FCA or EXW, so everything customs charges at the destination is yours.

Its customs page is blunt about India: every shipment needs the consignee's KYC documents, and DHL won't start clearance until they're uploaded. The same page says India customs will want a CHIMS registration certificate for packages with chips. That line is out of date. DGFT discontinued compulsory CHIMS registration for all five IC headings (8542 31 00 to 8542 90 00) on 29 November 2024, in Notification 41/2024-25. If a courier asks you for one, that notification is your answer.

Our take: Unbeatable for a reel of 0603 resistors or the exact parts a JLCPCB assembly job specifies. For one or two parts, shipping and clearance swamp the saving.

What an imported order really costs: duty, IGST and KYC

Import duty in India is a short chain, and every link is in a CBIC document. It helps to know the chain before the courier's invoice arrives.

1. Assessable value. Customs starts from the transaction value plus the cost of transport to India, insurance, and handling. That is section 14 of the Customs Act as the CBIC Customs Manual 2025 sets it out. Your shipping charge is inside this number.

2. Basic customs duty (BCD). A rate from the tariff, set by the heading. Much of what we buy falls under Notification 24/2005-Customs, which exempts 8532 (capacitors), 8533 (resistors), 8541 (diodes, transistors, LEDs) and 8542 (integrated circuits) from the whole of the duty. A 2025 notification still refers to that exemption. Modules, cables, connectors and tools sit under other headings, so check each line against the current tariff.

3. Social Welfare Surcharge (SWS). 10 % of the customs duties, under section 110 of the Finance Act 2018. It's a percentage of BCD, so where BCD is nil, SWS is nil too.

4. IGST. Charged on the assessable value plus the customs duties, at the GST rate for that heading. For ITA-exempt parts this is often the only tax on the parcel.

Getting the IGST back. CBIC's guidance note for importers says a registered importer can take input credit on the IGST paid at import, but not on BCD. The condition is that your GSTIN is declared on the bill of entry. Give the courier your GSTIN before clearance, not after.

The paperwork: CBE, not CSB

A lot of advice online talks about CSB-III and CSB-V for incoming parcels. Those are courier shipping bills, and shipping bills are export documents. Your DigiKey box comes in on a Courier Bill of Entry. Under the Courier Imports and Exports (Electronic Declaration and Processing) Regulations, 2010, a dutiable consignment with an invoice value up to ₹1 lakh goes on CBE-XIII; above that, CBE-XIV. Gifts and samples up to ₹10,000 go on CBE-XII.

The CBE-XIII form has fields for a GSTIN and an IEC. An individual importing for personal use doesn't need an IEC of their own: DGFT's Handbook of Procedures exempts them, and CBIC's Circular 33/2010 says the permanent personal-use IEC can be used on the form. The courier fills that in.

Courier KYC

Circular 33/2010 makes it obligatory for the customer to give the courier any two of the listed KYC documents. FedEx's India KYC form lists passport, PAN, voter card, driving licence, bank statement, ration card and Aadhaar, and lets an individual send one document if it proves both identity and address. LCSC's page says the same for DHL: no clearance until the KYC is in.

Do it once, early. Clearance doesn't start without it, so a parcel waiting on KYC just waits. Only share documents through the courier's own site or the number on its official page, never a link in an unexpected SMS.

Two traps worth knowing

The ₹5,000 duty-free gift allowance you'll see quoted is for gifts under heading 9804, and that heading covers post and air mail. The Customs Manual says goods by courier can't be classified under it. A courier parcel labelled "gift" doesn't get that exemption.

The second is the CHIMS line on LCSC's page, covered above.

Our take: For a hobbyist ordering ICs and passives from DigiKey or Mouser, the realistic extra is IGST on the order plus shipping, collected by the courier. For a GST-registered business that IGST comes back as credit, which makes imports cheaper than they first look.

The markets, and what each is for

A market is worth the trip when you need a part today, or want to hold a connector against the one you're replacing. We list only markets that a published source describes as an electronics market. Opening days aren't here, because we found no reliable source for any of them; phone ahead.

Take the part number, the datasheet on your phone, a multimeter, and the part you are matching. Ask for a GST bill; a shop that won't give one is telling you something.

Lamington Road, Mumbai

Near Grant Road station, and long known for wholesale and retail electronics. Its Wikipedia article mentions old radio parts (transistors, capacitors, cables) alongside computer hardware and sound cards, which is roughly the mix you should expect.

SP Road, Bengaluru

Sadar Patrappa Road grew into an electronics hub in the early 1970s and runs to more than 1,500 stores along about two kilometres. It sells spare parts, gadgets and repair services. The US Trade Representative put it on the 2023 Notorious Markets List for counterfeit goods, which is worth remembering when you buy anything branded there.

Ritchie Street, Chennai

Just off Anna Salai (Mount Road). Wikipedia, citing The Hindu, calls it the second-largest market in India for computer spares and peripherals, after Nehru Place, and mentions electronics, robotics and LED lighting shops around it.

Lajpat Rai Market and Bhagirath Palace, Delhi

Both are in Old Delhi near the Red Fort, and they are not the same kind of market. Lajpat Rai Market is one of Old Delhi's busiest electronics hubs, a short walk from the Red Fort metro station. Bhagirath Palace, off Chandni Chowk, is described by Delhi Tourism as Asia's largest market for electrical goods: lamps, fittings, switchgear. Go to Lajpat Rai for electronics, and to Bhagirath Palace for the wiring and the lamp holder.

Nehru Place in south Delhi is the city's computer market, and it was on the USTR notorious-markets list from 2009 to 2014.

Chandni Chowk, Kolkata

Wikipedia calls it the oldest and biggest hardware and software market in West Bengal; the nearest metro stations are Chandni Chowk and Esplanade. From Durgapur it is the nearest of these. It is a computer market first; expect to hunt for loose components.

Gujarati Galli, Koti, Hyderabad

The Hans India calls it the city's largest electric hub, a wholesale electronics market selling raw materials to electronics companies and mobile spares.

Pune's Budhwar Peth is known for electrical goods, though we found only thin sourcing for it. Naza Market in Lucknow and Relief Road in Ahmedabad came up only in listings and blogs, so they stay off this page until we can confirm them.

Our take: Markets are for parts you need today and connectors you want to match by hand. They are the wrong place to buy a branded IC you can't test on the spot.

How to avoid counterfeit parts

Counterfeits collect where branded parts change hands outside the manufacturer's channel: surplus stock, relabelled pulls, the open market. A module rarely matters here. A voltage regulator, a MOSFET, a microcontroller or a Li-ion cell does.

1. Buy from the authorised channel

Every major manufacturer publishes its own list of authorised distributors, usually under "where to buy" or "sales and distribution". That list settles it; the seller's claim doesn't, and neither does ours. If the part isn't in stock at an authorised distributor, a cheaper offer somewhere else deserves suspicion.

2. Check the marking against the datasheet

Most IC datasheets have a package-marking section near the end: the top-side code, the logo, the date-code format and pin-1 position. Compare. Fonts that differ between parts in the same tube, a surface that looks sanded or re-coated, date codes that don't follow the documented format, a package the datasheet doesn't list: each is a reason to stop. The lessons on reading IC datasheets and IC packages show where to look, and reading datasheets covers the rest of the document.

3. Decode and measure the passives

Chip resistors are rarely worth faking, but a reel can still be mislabelled or mixed up. Decode the marking with the SMD resistor code calculator, then measure a few against their tolerance. The SMD resistor codes lesson explains the EIA-96 codes that look like typos, and SMD packages helps you confirm the size. For capacitors, decode with the capacitor code calculator and check against capacitor markings, then measure with an LCR meter if you have one.

4. Test before you solder a batch

A multimeter's diode test catches a dead junction in seconds. The transistor, diode and capacitor testing lessons show how to check a few samples from a new source. Electrolytics from an unknown maker deserve a look at the electrolytic lesson before they go near a power supply. For cells, read battery types first, and treat a capacity figure far above what that chemistry and size can hold as a fake. And handle anything CMOS as the ESD lesson says, whoever sold it to you.

Our take: Buy branded silicon from the authorised channel and modules wherever the price is fair. From any new source, test a sample before it goes on a board.

Questions we keep hearing

Do I pay customs on a DigiKey order? Yes, on delivery. DigiKey India ships CPT, so duty, customs and taxes are collected when the parcel arrives. For ICs and passives under the ITA exemption that is mostly IGST.

Can I get a GST invoice from Mouser? Yes, if you have a GSTIN and a business address in India and pay by net terms or wire transfer. That invoice is DDP, so Mouser pays the duty.

Do I need an IEC to import parts for myself? No. DGFT exempts personal-use imports from the IEC requirement, and the courier uses the permanent personal-use IEC on the bill of entry. You still need KYC documents.

Is CHIMS registration needed for importing chips? Not since 29 November 2024, when DGFT Notification 41/2024-25 discontinued it for the 8542 headings. Some seller pages still say otherwise.

Where is the cheapest place to buy components in India? It depends on the order, which is why this page shows thresholds and not prices. Small maker orders favour a domestic store whose free-delivery line you can reach. Large passive orders favour LCSC even after duty. A single IC favours whichever authorised seller stocks it nearest.

Sources

Every seller policy was read on the seller's own site on 30 September 2026. Government sources are the documents named; secondary reporting is labelled as such.

Sellers (checked 30 September 2026)

• Robu.in: shipping charges and delivery time; shipping and refund policy; tax invoice
• Robokits India: conditions; how-to-buy FAQs; GST; about us
• Evelta: shipping and returns; FAQ; contact
• Probots: shipping policy; terms; about us
• ElectronicsComp: homepage banner; delivery; COD policy; terms
• Amazon.in help: delivery charges; GST invoice items; Amazon Business input credit
• element14 India: terms and conditions of sale; placing orders; local stock
• Mouser India: new customers; GST invoice formats; shipping options
• DigiKey India: delivery time and cost; incoterms
• LCSC: shipping methods; shipping cost; customs, duties and taxes

Customs, GST and DGFT

• CBIC, Courier Imports and Exports (Electronic Declaration and Processing) Regulations, 2010, as amended: regulations 3 and 5, Forms C to E
• CBIC, Circular 33/2010-Customs, 7 September 2010: KYC and IEC on courier imports
• CBIC, Customs Manual 2025: chapter 7 (valuation), chapter 6 §7.1 (heading 9804 excludes courier), chapter 17 (courier)
• CBIC, Guidance Note for Importers and Exporters (2017): IGST base and input credit on imports
• Ministry of Finance, Notification 24/2005-Customs (ITA exemption) and Notification 07/2025-Customs (still referring to it)
• Ministry of Finance, Budget 2018-19 memorandum: Social Welfare Surcharge at 10 % of customs duties
• Ministry of Finance, Notification 45/2025-Customs: gifts by post or air under heading 9804
• DGFT, Handbook of Procedures 2023, chapter 2, para 2.07: IEC exemption for personal use
• DGFT, Notification 41/2024-25, 29 November 2024: CHIMS registration discontinued (scanned PDF; content as reported by The Week)
• FedEx, India Know Your Customer form (INF098)

Markets

• Lamington Road: Wikipedia
• SP Road: Rest of World (2022); The News Minute (30 January 2024)
• Ritchie Street: Wikipedia, citing The Hindu (29 June 2017)
• Lajpat Rai Market: National Herald
• Bhagirath Palace: Delhi Tourism; Wikipedia
• Nehru Place: Wikipedia
• Chandni Chowk, Kolkata: Wikipedia
• Gujarati Galli, Koti: The Hans India (30 June 2021)
• Budhwar Peth: Wikipedia

How this page was checked

Every threshold, charge and delivery time in the table was read on the seller's own page on 30 September 2026, and where two of a seller's pages disagree we say so. The customs section cites the regulation or notification, not a blog about it. We print no prices, and this page carries no affiliate links. We will re-check it every year. Found something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.

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