Politicians in Delhi are no longer choosing only 5-star hotels for dining out, stand-alone niche restaurants are now the place to go politician spotting.
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.
It is a wrong notion to put forth this view that private players are being stopped to make their contributions in defence production !
The well- versed and well- equipped private players in this stream must be encouraged and boosted up ! Had private players been so seasoned in this field then these must have tried their hands in it and why the polity was constrained to rely too much on HAL for this purpose for so long ?
But ironically, it is indeed suicidal to hand over this responsibility to private players having zero experience and floating their companies just about a fortnight before the finalisation of the defence deals !
Such an act is nothing but a sheer compromise with the defence and security of the nation on the part of the polity !
Will it not be so in fact ?
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist,Barnala(Punjab)
It is a wrong notion to put forth this view that private players are being stopped to make their contributions in defence production !
The well- versed and well- equipped private players in this stream must be encouraged and boosted up ! Had private players been so seasoned in this field then these must have tried their hands in it and why the polity was constrained to rely too much on HAL for this purpose for so long ?
But ironically, it is indeed suicidal to hand over this responsibility to private players having zero experience and floating their companies just about a fortnight before the finalisation of the defence deals !
Such an act is nothing but a sheer compromise with the defence and security of the nation on the part of the polity !
Will it not be so in fact ?
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest,Barnala (Punjab)