ThePrint | India’s defence sector is not Aatmanirbhar. Govt is exaggerating progress

India has made varied attempts since Independence to achieve self-reliance in defence-related requirements but its achievements have been limited.

The quest for self-reliance has to keep abreast of scientific discoveries and harness them for military purposes. Contemporarily, self-reliance has been rechristened as Atmanirbharta, and cast within a larger national agenda that engages R&D Institutes, academia, industries, start-ups, individual innovators and users. In political and strategic terms, this ecosystem approach aims to protect and preserve India’s ability to take independent policy decisions in an increasingly volatile and anarchic global environment.

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