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.
Rightly or wrongly, some apprehensions have emerged over EVMs being vulnerable to tampering. That issue should be firmly laid to rest. Beyond that, there is a lot of institutional integrity to the ECI, so a good team player should have no difficulty serving as CEC and conducting the next general election successfully.
Rightly or wrongly, some apprehensions have emerged over EVMs being vulnerable to tampering. That issue should be firmly laid to rest. Beyond that, there is a lot of institutional integrity to the ECI, so a good team player should have no difficulty serving as CEC and conducting the next general election successfully.