New Delhi, September 10, 2015: Speaking at two day DEFTRONICS 2015 being organized by India Electronics and Semiconductors Association (IESA), Shri. JS Deepak, IAS, Secretary Department of Electronics and Information Technology stressed upon making the Intellectual Property Right and research and development as the priority of the country to make the dream of Digital India a success.
Shri. Deepak said, “Special point we have to focus on is the importance of Intellectual Property Right (IPR). It is very important to access higher ends of defence electronics business.”
“Research and development for IPR development is going to be the life of this sector. I request IESA and the industry to take this message that unless we develop IPR in the long run we are not going to be able to penetrate high value of electronics.” said JS Deepak.
He was speaking at two day DEFTRONICS 2015 being organized by India Electronics and Semiconductor Association. The event is focused on Building Global Partnerships for ‘Make in India’ in the Aerospace, Defence and Internal Security sector, organized by the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association and this is the second edition of DEFTRONICS 2015, with the first held in Bengaluru last year.
Shri Deepak pointed that the Defence equipment market is going to be the sunrise area. He said, “The time for defence sector has come. We imported USD17 billion of defence products in 5 years. With ‘Make in India’.it will be the sunrise sector for manufacturing.”
Stressing the importance of ‘Make in India’ he stressed on job creation. He said, “We are running a very ambitious ‘Make in India’ programme which aims to create 12 million jobs for additional people every year. Defence manufacturing, defence electronics will remain a priority for government.”
He added important areas of internal security and cybersecurity as the areas to focus on. “The needed attention is being given to the sophisticate solutions for internal security, cybersecurity which are safe and trustworthy solutions,” he said.
Talking about the policy related issues to improve the eco-system related to defence manufacturing Shri Deepak said, “FDI has been raised so we will see lot of JVs, Partnerships and offsets obligations”. Old offset was loaded towards public sector undertakings which is now being changed so bring in the private sector. Transfer of Technology, design transfer and the use offset will give an advantage to electronic part of defence equipment.”
“To support the domestic manufacturers in the government procurement we have preferential market access policy to give preference to domestically manufactured products. If you look at the policy area I think there are instruments from the point of view of tariff, FDI, offset implementation geared to promote domestic manufacture.”
There are number of areas we need to address to make this eco system even more competitive. Of these areas, most of them are related to mechanism of government. Government is in process to clear Public Procurement Bill which will make procurement more transparent.
This is the time of responsibility and opportunity for Private Sector. Addressing the skill gap, Shri Deepak asked the industry to get involved. He said, “Unless the private sector gets involved and apprise them with their requirements, we won’t have the required skills. Skill develop is basic area. The initiative has to come from private sector. Also promotion is equally important he said and added that we may have the best but unless we market it we will lose. We will have to make the world know the kind of sophisticated work being done in India.”
We should now believe that the idea of leadership in electronic manufacturing the idea has come. It will lead to increase in profits and margins, make India a manufacturing hub and will develop brand value and trust.
