The crisis also puts DGCA’s vacancies in the eye of the storm. Naidu told the Rajya Sabha in July this year that 190 out of 410 DGCA vacancies would be filled this year.
Data shows re-alignment in India’s exports, with Tamil Nadu & Telangana posting strong growth in 2024-25 as traditional heavyweights Gujarat & Maharashtra see declines. Gujarat still leads, though.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
An interesting point brought out by Pranab….Gujarat is perhaps the first test of a BJP government facing election where the incumbency factor could go either way. Modi’s image is being packaged as a proxy CM to shield the current incumbent(s). No one knows how far will it work. Modi’s image appears quite bruised compared to the freshness 0f expectations in 2014. Another factor that most analysts are missing out is the swing among the youth who appear fairly disillusioned with no growth in jobs and none in the near horizon. Nevertheless, the opposition is distinctively fractured to take any advantage of the incumbency factor.
An interesting point brought out by Pranab….Gujarat is perhaps the first test of a BJP government facing election where the incumbency factor could go either way. Modi’s image is being packaged as a proxy CM to shield the current incumbent(s). No one knows how far will it work. Modi’s image appears quite bruised compared to the freshness 0f expectations in 2014. Another factor that most analysts are missing out is the swing among the youth who appear fairly disillusioned with no growth in jobs and none in the near horizon. Nevertheless, the opposition is distinctively fractured to take any advantage of the incumbency factor.