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.
The ministerial talent crunch is a fact of life. What has happened to the mandarins … If there are few admirers of our foreign policy / global diplomacy, there are now almost a thousand professional, covenanted diplomats. Sector by sector, the entire system is underperforming.
The ministerial talent crunch is a fact of life. What has happened to the mandarins … If there are few admirers of our foreign policy / global diplomacy, there are now almost a thousand professional, covenanted diplomats. Sector by sector, the entire system is underperforming.