Simultaneous growth in Hi-Tech industries in India is important to sustain the growth rate and to ensure national security. The sectors are generally controlled, directly or indirectly by the governmental policy. However, the necessary growth in these industries is plagued by the sanctions from the so-called developed countries for decades. Though, this has definitely helped the country in developing technologies indigenously, it has resulted in considerable delay in the all-round progress. Thus, all the time, India has been lagging behind in the areas of interest such as space, atomic energy and micro-electronics.
It is time that the government needs to take hard decisions with respect to the selection of able leadership for defense research and in the science and technology sector. The selection of the Top Leader should be purely based on all-round merit, and not on caste, religion, regional politics or “apna admi” basis.
The government should maintain overall control over the strategic departments and related industries. The applicable civil rules and work conditions may be diluted/ modified / changed to facilitate Public-Private-Partnership so as to:
1. Create openings for the academics to work in national laboratories on sabbaticals and vice-versa.
2. Establishment of more close and transparent interaction/association between defense services, academy and industry.
3. Quality assurance should be given top most priority in all manufactures and procurements.
4. Rules should be made easy to penalize corrupt and in-efficient officials.
5. Hierarchy should be planned in advance to facilitate smooth and timely implementation of the projects. Seniority need not be the only criteria.
6. Procurements should be made less time consuming. Purchases should not be bound by the “accept minimum quotation” basis. This concept not only compromises on quality, but also causes avoidable delay in project implementation.
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