A column written by Admiral Arun Prakash for ThePrint sparked a debate with Pakistani Air Commodore M. Kaiser Tufail. Here's the exchange between the two.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Every vocation has its uniqueness and this university brings has its strategic value however it has to collaborate with various other institutions to be successful. That is the key.
Indian university education has might have taught how to build dam, but policy decisions are left to bureaucracy and politics. Had there been studies on dams of all sizes and shared across country for study share best practices and greater learning. These are necessary.
Former RBI governors have said that India lacks qualified macro economics though lakhs of post graduates are produced..
We need engineering universities who can undertake R&D and not these liberal arts think tankies who write articles by hour and leech on public money. Better to not have anything if the aim is to develop a ‘strategic culture/thinking’.
University needs to impart education and not training. Police, Civil Service and Defence academies already impart training. No need to duplicate them. Aim should not be to teach but enable learning. Any one with out a PhD should be barred from faculty, even if a military or civil service officer. Faculty to publish articles and books in international journals like Routledge to renew their contract.
Every vocation has its uniqueness and this university brings has its strategic value however it has to collaborate with various other institutions to be successful. That is the key.
Indian university education has might have taught how to build dam, but policy decisions are left to bureaucracy and politics. Had there been studies on dams of all sizes and shared across country for study share best practices and greater learning. These are necessary.
Former RBI governors have said that India lacks qualified macro economics though lakhs of post graduates are produced..
What about a dedicated sniper school ? NONE YET …What a tragedy ?
We need engineering universities who can undertake R&D and not these liberal arts think tankies who write articles by hour and leech on public money. Better to not have anything if the aim is to develop a ‘strategic culture/thinking’.
University needs to impart education and not training. Police, Civil Service and Defence academies already impart training. No need to duplicate them. Aim should not be to teach but enable learning. Any one with out a PhD should be barred from faculty, even if a military or civil service officer. Faculty to publish articles and books in international journals like Routledge to renew their contract.