‘First-of-its kind’ policy to allow public-private partnership model for construction of airports & helipads; aviation-related industries to be set up as well.
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.
When the last Shiv Sena – BJP government was in power, it framed a policy in terms of which each of the state’s thirty odd districts would have an airport. May this new one be more cognizant of economic feasibility, succeed where the earlier failed to take off.
When the last Shiv Sena – BJP government was in power, it framed a policy in terms of which each of the state’s thirty odd districts would have an airport. May this new one be more cognizant of economic feasibility, succeed where the earlier failed to take off.