It is indefensible that India’s premier aerospace lab must wait over a year for clearance to test HAPS, a pseudo-satellite at 25,000 ft. Regulation should promote innovation, not stifle it. If India is serious about Atmanirbharta, bureaucratic systems must enable strategic research, not ground it in endless procedural delay.
HAPS clearance delay shows Atmanirbharta requires strategic research
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All the drummed-up focus on the AI Summit has been about overcrowding, traffic snarls and one participant’s fraud. Cancel the noise for the moment, you’ll find much substance, innovation, ingenuity and wisdom by the world’s most powerful, in tech and politics. It also positions India firmly on the AI stage.
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