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.
Mr Sharad Pawar can choose between the Congress and the BJP. Barring his first stint as CM, the happiest, most productive years of his life have been with the Congress; the DNA of most of his party colleagues is also shared with this party. Fifteen years of ruling Maharashtra, with a very fair representation of portfolios, was in coalition with the Congress. The third front, which might give the great man a chance to be PM, does not excite the national imagination any more. The next general and state elections will be Mr Pawar’s last ones. He must choose wisely, for the mantle has to be passed on to the next generation.
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Mr Sharad Pawar can choose between the Congress and the BJP. Barring his first stint as CM, the happiest, most productive years of his life have been with the Congress; the DNA of most of his party colleagues is also shared with this party. Fifteen years of ruling Maharashtra, with a very fair representation of portfolios, was in coalition with the Congress. The third front, which might give the great man a chance to be PM, does not excite the national imagination any more. The next general and state elections will be Mr Pawar’s last ones. He must choose wisely, for the mantle has to be passed on to the next generation.