Armed forces should treat industry as partner rather than vendor: Defence Minister
Updated: Jul 17, 2015 03:30:38pm
New Delhi, July 17 (KNN) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said that the Indian armed forces should treat industry as partners rather than vendors or suppliers.
He was addressing the CII-Indian Navy Seminar on Innovation and Indigenisation: Sailing Towards Self-Reliance at DRDO Bhawan, here today.
“Mutual trust between Indian Navy and industry is must for achieving higher levels of self-reliance without compromising with transparency,” he said.
Co-Chairman, CII National Committee on Defence and Managing Director, Sukaran Singh said that defence manufacturing sector requires 18 million skilled workers. To meet this target, CII, in collaboration with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), is launching Strategic (Defence) Manufacturing Sector Skill Council.
“We would like to align SMSC with the recently signed MoD-Ministry of Skills and Entrepreneurship MoU,” he said.
He also emphasised on the need of encouraging and incentivizing MSMEs and taking lessons from global best innovation and R&D models including Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA).
PVSM, AVSM, YSM, Chief of Naval Staff, RK Dhowan Indian Navy is committed to achieve self-reliance with the active support of Indian industry.
“Indian Navy is taking steps to achieve higher degree of indigenous content / indigenisation in the “fight” (weapons) category. Therefore, there exists huge opportunities for the industry to participate in the move and fight category,” he said.
He also informed that 48 ships and submarines are under construction in various Indian public and private sector shipyards.
There is a need to harness cutting edge technologies to increase the indigenisation content in the future ship, submarines ad aircraft, added Dhowan.
Chief of Materiel, AV Subhedar highlighted the need to have a greater involvement of industry in the indigenisation programmes of the Indian Navy.
Joint Secretary, DIPP, Shubra Singh informed that several industry friendly steps have been taken by the government to ensure ease of doing business.
“These steps include relaxation in FDI limit in defence, significant reduction in the list of Industrial licenses, single window clearance, streamlining of defence exports and so on,”he said.
Singh also disclosed the initiatives taken by various state governments by offering comprehensive packages to attract defence manufacturers and investors to their respective states.
Chairman Reliance Group, Anil Ambani said that defence manufacturing sector has witnessed paradigm shift and there is a need for everyone to channelize their energies towards achieving the common aim of self-reliance.
The seminar is spread over two days and is being attended by government officials, captains from ship building industry and members of academia besides officers from the Indian armed forces. (KNN Bureau)
He was addressing the CII-Indian Navy Seminar on Innovation and Indigenisation: Sailing Towards Self-Reliance at DRDO Bhawan, here today.
“Mutual trust between Indian Navy and industry is must for achieving higher levels of self-reliance without compromising with transparency,” he said.
Co-Chairman, CII National Committee on Defence and Managing Director, Sukaran Singh said that defence manufacturing sector requires 18 million skilled workers. To meet this target, CII, in collaboration with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), is launching Strategic (Defence) Manufacturing Sector Skill Council.
“We would like to align SMSC with the recently signed MoD-Ministry of Skills and Entrepreneurship MoU,” he said.
He also emphasised on the need of encouraging and incentivizing MSMEs and taking lessons from global best innovation and R&D models including Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA).
PVSM, AVSM, YSM, Chief of Naval Staff, RK Dhowan Indian Navy is committed to achieve self-reliance with the active support of Indian industry.
“Indian Navy is taking steps to achieve higher degree of indigenous content / indigenisation in the “fight” (weapons) category. Therefore, there exists huge opportunities for the industry to participate in the move and fight category,” he said.
He also informed that 48 ships and submarines are under construction in various Indian public and private sector shipyards.
There is a need to harness cutting edge technologies to increase the indigenisation content in the future ship, submarines ad aircraft, added Dhowan.
Chief of Materiel, AV Subhedar highlighted the need to have a greater involvement of industry in the indigenisation programmes of the Indian Navy.
Joint Secretary, DIPP, Shubra Singh informed that several industry friendly steps have been taken by the government to ensure ease of doing business.
“These steps include relaxation in FDI limit in defence, significant reduction in the list of Industrial licenses, single window clearance, streamlining of defence exports and so on,”he said.
Singh also disclosed the initiatives taken by various state governments by offering comprehensive packages to attract defence manufacturers and investors to their respective states.
Chairman Reliance Group, Anil Ambani said that defence manufacturing sector has witnessed paradigm shift and there is a need for everyone to channelize their energies towards achieving the common aim of self-reliance.
The seminar is spread over two days and is being attended by government officials, captains from ship building industry and members of academia besides officers from the Indian armed forces. (KNN Bureau)
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