Facilitating 'Make' projects

A suitable percentage of the acquisitions budget must be separately earmarked for projects in this category

Ajai Shukla 

Ajai Shukla Defence ministry officials, military officers and new defence ministers – of whom we have had rather a lot under the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government – like to periodically intone their commitment to indigenisation. Few bother to explain what they mean by that, not being entirely clear about the nuances themselves. Last fortnight, almost three years after Broadsword carried a column titled “Made in India versus Make in India”, top government officials spoke on the same subject at a Ficci-organised seminar in New Delhi: “Solutions to Problem Statements: ...

First Published: Mon, November 06 2017. 22:43 IST