There has to be a system which can help tap talented researchers irrespective of the Technical Colleges they come from and credentials they secure in their fossilized technical curriculams .
Believe me I have seen very briliant innovators during my college days at a respectable government college who did have a hunger for innovation . These guys later made it to R&D CENTRES of Tatas and Birlas upon being turned down by bureaucracy marred defence institutions like DRDO ,HAL etc .
These defence institutes need to be made autonomous and should not be governed by Ministries wherein Bureaucrats with BA and ARTS degrees are made incharge of framing defense policies .
ALTHOUGH IT IS PARTIAL INDIGENISATION: 1)TECHNOLOGY IS LOCAL, WE CAN TAKE IT TO HEIGHTS 2)OUTFLOW OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE IS MUCH LESS 3)AFTER SALE SERVICE ISSUES GET ADDRESSED 4) HOST OF OTHER SPIN-OFFS 5) IT IS INDIAN PRODUCT AND CAN BE EXPLOITED FOR COMMERCIAL GAINS
Re: Wonder
by M A on Jun 03, 2011 11:26 AM
You are right! Rediff is now recycling all its old article with new date! There few other old articles today with today's date!
Whole India is focussing on tomorrow Statygarh of Baba Ramdev and rediff is giving other headlines. This is very wrong and you are disappointing to your usres only.
It is easy to criticise and be cynical. The indeginisation capability has improved over last decade and it needs to be encouraged. BTW the writer needs to check few details about Big Aviation companies of world. They are large scale integrators of flying birds. The majority of their components are outsourced from various countries. 100% indeginisation will always be pipedream. The process started by Indian Navy and its shipyards needs more encouragement.
An extremely well researched article that brings out the stark realities for all to see. The challenge lies in how to encourage the Tatas and Ambanis to stop runnig after 4G technology, and think of building world class gas turbine engines, fast response aircraft actuators, high pressure fuel pumps, etc.Or for that matter, involving IT giants like Infosys,Wipro,HCL,TCS etc, to develop on board / embedded software for critical weopon systems. But we all know the reality already. These changes will never happen, unless we start with funding our universities adequately,to develop core technologies.
Re: Absolute But unfortunate Truth
by kafir chronicles on Jun 03, 2011 11:35 AM
BEL will have the likes of them for an evening snack. Agreed, a large part of its technology is acquired through ToT and other such means, but what cannot be written off is that they build upon an existing technology and take it several notches higher.
Re: Re: Absolute But unfortunate Truth
by Karan Sharma on Jun 03, 2011 11:43 AM
The PSUs are deliberately suffocated of talent and resources in order to benefit the private sector. The examples are galore like IDPL,MIDHANI,NTC etc. Decisions are delibereately delayed resulting in technology becoming obsolete and maybe resulting in scrapping of the deal altogether leading to even more delays. Remember the case of BSNL? A contract worth almost 5 lac crores had to be scrapped because the beureucrats wanted it. Same is the case of defence purchases. The army desperately needs new quick setting blood clotters, mountain guns, multi-barelled rocket launchers, advanced assault rifles but nothing is being done. If a few thousand soldiers die in the meanwhile, who cares. It was only George Fernandes who had kicked the arses of the beureucrats and expedited the purchases but no one else is interested. Indigenisation is fine but national security can not wait indefinitely.
