It is not a nationalistic slogan, it is a country’s risk management.
It is not protectionism within a global village. It is retaining strategic choices, to use when the turbulence hits.
We believe ‘Make in India’ is a matter of time. We have the right human resource. The Government has to press the right buttons.
We believe ‘Design in India’ is a very important component to achieve ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’. In the years to come, as manufacturing and back end offices go to the most efficient regions, those who hold technology will hold the reins of commerce and leverage it.
We set off on that journey to develop indigenous technologies a few years back. After all, human intellect is a per capita resource, better distributed worldwide than oil. Let me share our journey.
We designed river clean up solution in 2015. Today it is the biggest success story worldwide in terms of trash and plastics stopped from reaching the sea. There is no sensationally big amounts raised or spent. There is no big media budgets, so it is a relatively unknown success, but a success by any discerning yardstick. It can be seen live on Google earth.