One MRI machine, built by a Bengaluru startup, is CDSCO-approved, but stuck at an unfinished hospital. The other, developed by a govt lab, awaits trials at AIIMS in October.
The MRI machine, which promises to bring down procurement cost by 40–50%, is expected to be installed in AIIMS-Delhi this October, making scans more affordable for patients.
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.
Deeply claustrophobic since childhood, have to calm my nerves when going into the MRI machine. Could never have joined the Navy and become a submariner.
Deeply claustrophobic since childhood, have to calm my nerves when going into the MRI machine. Could never have joined the Navy and become a submariner.