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.
At one level, we seem to have become an affluent society. Everything is being expressed in thousands of crores. Even ADAG, which has not earned ten thousand crores in profit since inception, is now suing NDTV for that amount. Dr. Prannoy Roy would say, If I had that kind of money, I would be scuba diving in the Caribbean.
When will ED check with Barkha?
I just hope that the media will report this case factually and not turn it into an attack on freedom of press story.
At one level, we seem to have become an affluent society. Everything is being expressed in thousands of crores. Even ADAG, which has not earned ten thousand crores in profit since inception, is now suing NDTV for that amount. Dr. Prannoy Roy would say, If I had that kind of money, I would be scuba diving in the Caribbean.