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Nothing captures a nation’s zeitgeist better than a political slogan. In the mid-1960s in India, it was the guns and butter ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’. It signified India’s rising military-industrial base and the start of the Green Revolution. This helpe

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At the core of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ slogan sits the ambition to make Indian manufacturing both self-reliant and globally competitive. However, the journey to self-reliance is far from easy, and will require protectionist incentives to produce loc

₹ 1.14 LAKH CRORE Chinese investments in India since September 2014, spurred by a combination of Beijing’s ‘Going Global’ strategy and the easing of India’s FDI policy. Five sectors accounted for more than 60 per cent of these investments: 327 Crit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for an ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ is about making India self-confident. It is encouraging the country to embrace innovation and is about making India an integral part of the global supply chain, a top-class manufacturi

In the mid-1980s, no country was willing to sell India the missiles it needed to launch nuclear warheads. It was then that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was tasked with building not only strategic missiles but also critical

Ever since the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was set up in 1972, it has earned a reputation for delivering constantly apart from propelling India into the exclusive club of spacefaring nations that have the full range of technological cap

As part of Atmanirbhar Bharat, the government has cleared private players to carry out space activities. Right now, all space activities in India are carried out only by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), including building rockets and sa

The Department of Atomic Energy has been doing indigenous development for some time now; a majority of components used in any activity we are involved in are made in India. We have been following the atmanirbhar principle to a great extent all along.

L&T Defence is India’s largest defence private sector player involved in several programmes for the navy, coast guard, army and air force, with a shipyard on the east coast and a manufacturing facility on the west coast. Currently, it is executing th

IN 2019, India became the world’s fifth-largest auto market, with domestic sales of 21.5 million vehicles. Automobile exports reached 4.77 million units that year, with two-wheelers making up 73.9 per cent of vehicles exported. Meanwhile, the auto co

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) assembled its first vehicle in 1947, and today offers a wide range of products, from SUVs to electric vehicles (EVs), commercial vehicles, trucks and buses, tractors, two-wheelers and construction equipment. The firm commenc

Motherson Sumi Systems is one of the top automotive parts companies in the world. The domestic turnover of the listed company has grown from Rs 19.3 crore at the time of listing in India in 1993, to Rs 6,628 crore in 2019-20, with the group’s turnove

A country as big as India should have a strong manufacturing base; unfortunately, we don’t. A large part of our [industrial] requirements, including raw materials and components, should be produced in India. This is not to say one should aim for 100

India is the largest provider of generic drugs globally, supplying over 50 per cent of the demand for various vaccines, 40 per cent of generic demand in the US and 25 per cent of all medicines in the UK. The Indian pharmaceutical industry accounts fo

From humble beginnings in 1983 with just two employees and five psychiatry products, Sun Pharma is now the fourth largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world and the No. 1 in India, selling over 2,000 products in 100 countries. Its global pre

It all starts with self-belief, with atmavishvas. We have to first recognise our capabilities, potential and aspirations to pursue this path of self-reliance. You have to create a nation and an economy that can be sustainable. How do we build a susta

The Serum Institute of India (SII) has been at the forefront of adopting the latest technology and investing in R&D. Being one of the world’s largest generic vaccine manufacturers (more than 1.5 billion doses sold globally), it produces vaccines for

he golden age of Indian agriculture may finally have begun. The Rs 1 lakh crore Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, launched on August 9, will support farmers, primary agricultural credit societies, farmer-producer organisations (FPOs) and agri entrepre

India is currently the world’s second-largest telecom market, with a subscriber base of over 1.2 billion. The sector was liberalised under the National Telecom Policy, 1994, allowing the entry of private players—this, along with strong demand, led to

India is one of the world’s largest producers of textiles and garments. The textile sector is one of our oldest industries, with a mix of hand-spun and hand-woven textiles on the one end and capital-intensive sophisticated mills on the other. Power l

India’s information technology (IT) sector has left an indelible imprint globally. The country not only commands a 55 per cent market share in the $200-250 billion global services sourcing business (2019-20), our IT and business process management (B

According to a 2019 Nasscom report, seven ‘unicorns’— private firms valued at over $1 billion—were founded in India in the first eight months of that year. The number of potential unicorns more than tripled from 15 in 2018 to 52 in 2019. The realisat

India ranked 44th in a list of 167 countries in the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index for 2018—an indication that the country has a long way to go before achieving optimal infrastructure development across the board, be it power, roads, bridge

In a country where Ayurveda was conceptualised as a way of life by Charaka in 100 BC and surgery was being practised by Sushruta in 600 BC, it’s not surprising to witness several success stories around Ayurvedic products. From the ubiquitous chyawanp