For customers, BluSmart was a success story that impacted their daily lives. In sync with the government’s clean mobility push, it was a flaunt for green-conscious riders.
A fallout of the BluSmart-Gensol saga is that entrepreneurs will have to face greater scrutiny from investors. It’s a wake up call for regulators & lenders, say market watchers.
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.
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