CII Telangana, in
partnership with DRDL, are organising a two day conference on ‘Make in India:
DRDL (DRDO) – CII Industry Meet on Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs in the
Defence Sector at the DRDL campus, at DRDL Auditorium, Kanchanbag.
The objective of the conference was to promote partnerships
between the MSMEs and the defence organizations to collaborate in the areas of
R&D, technology transfer and procurement.
Dr. K Jayaraman, DS
& Director, DRDL, in
his keynote address, emphasised the need for a closer interaction and constant
engagement between the defence organizations and the SME sector. He touched
upon some of the ongoing DRDO’s Missile projects – Aakash, Ashtra, Brahmos,
besides others and expressed the need to involve private sector, especially
from the SME segment to develop various components, including critical
engineering components and composite technologies.
Dr. Jayaraman mentioned that the defence organizations have
immense requirements in the areas of precision engineering, electronics
manufacturing, electronics sub systems, RF Seeker technologies, besides many
others and are looking for more SME players to cater the growing procurement
needs. He also highlighted that defence components are getting exported, which
goes to prove that the defence manufacturers from the private sector do meet
the high quality standards in the international markets.
Earlier, Ms.
Vanitha Datla, Chairperson CII Telangana, in
her welcome address opined that there
is a growing imperative for Indian companies, especially SMEs, to integrate
themselves into the supply chains of national defence majors in order to reduce
dependence on foreign supplies and also to gain a foothold in the national
defence market. “I am sure with the advancements in technologies, quality of
domestic defence manufacturing has enhanced to global standards and the thought
process of having more domestic players especially from the SME segment is
indeed a welcome initiative” she
said.
In his theme address, Mr.
Mahesh Desai, Convenor CII
Telangana MSME Panel & MD & CEO, Meera & Ceiko Pumps P Ltd.,
highlighting the contribution made by the SMEs to the GDP of the country, urged
the defence organizations like DRDO to mentor and enhance the potential of SMEs
for indigenization production. “it can also broaden the defence R&D base
of the country and use the policy changes to form joint ventures and public
private partnership with SME players to meet their production targets and
enable these industries to graduate to the next level”, he opined.
Dr. P Bhattacharjee,
Director – R&QA, DRDL delivered
the concluding remarks.
The conference was attended by around 200 industry members
primarily from the SME sector and about 100 senior scientists from various
projects of DRDO. The Conference had various presentations on the ongoing
projects from DRDL, BDL, ASL, RCI, Tata Advanced Systems, besides others. It
also had success stories of select SMEs doing business with DRDO.
For more details, please contact:
Merin Devassia, Head, CII Telangana
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