Entrepreneurs need to be passionate about Make in India: Vice Chief

The Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured (IDDM) category will be the Ministry of Defence’s first priority when it comes to procurement of weapons and spare parts, said Air Marshal SB Deo, vice chief of air staff.

Delivering the first lecture at the technical meet and aerospace luminary lecture series of the Aeronautical Society of India, Hyderabad Chapter, on Sunday, Air Marshal Deo called for more passion among entrepreneurs in the engineering sector.

“Entrepreneurs in the country are unfamiliar with the needs of the defence sector. Many more are not quite passionate about the engineering that goes into designing products for the defence sector and are unaware of the importance of paying attention to detail. Also, we have faced situations where Indian entrepreneurs making indigenous products have quoted prices higher than the total cost of procurement of the same product from a foreign country,” said Deo. Read more…