Global media also looks at how India may have overlooked China’s role as Pakistan’s primary arms supplier during the conflict, as well as Modi govt's rethink of its PLI schemes.
As Modi’s podcast remarks reshape India-China ties, global media highlights stalled manufacturing goals, weak administrative efficiency, and economic hurdles in India’s PLI scheme.
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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