‘Make in India’ needs a new materials push: DRDO chief

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India has to improve its capability to develop innovative materials for the defence sector to fuel Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” campaign, Avinash Chander, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Director-General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, said here on Wednesday.

Delivering a lecture on “Materials for defence and nation-building” at the annual convention of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Science, Mr. Chander said the country was unable to harness deposits of rare earth metals needed for research in the sector.

“China has 89 per cent of the rare earth metals deposits [in the world], and it has started to embargo and deny access to them,” he said. “We have to develop capabilities to utilise our natural resources. One or two scientific laboratories can’t do this. It should be a combined effort of all academic institutions, laboratories and universities.”

He said India had not been able to develop a disruptive technology that would redefine, change and open new windows of research to develop innovative materials for the defence sector. “Titanium is used in almost all aerospace engines. We are not able to come up with world-class engines just because we don’t have a good supply of such a material. The bullet-proof jackets used by U.S. forces are eight to 10 kg heavier and do not suit our forces. We have to reduce the weight of bullet-proof jackets by at least half, but have not reached there yet,” he said.

‘Make in India’ needs a new materials push: DRDO chief - The Hindu

Finally the emphasis is in correct direction.

 

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India think about it. China claimed a significant amount of underwater land in the Indian Ocean. For what purpose? To mine and harness the rare earth metals. India should get every nation in the IOR to agree on rules and regulation that make it financially impossible for any foreign nation outside the region to mine these metals easily. Environmental laws will nip their aspirations in the beginning. Even though China lacks the tech to do so, it went ahead and still claimed it. Wtf was India under Congress doing? Singing a bollywood flick?

India has to improve its capability to develop innovative materials for the defence sector to fuel Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” campaign, Avinash Chander, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and Director-General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, said here on Wednesday.

Delivering a lecture on “Materials for defence and nation-building” at the annual convention of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Science, Mr. Chander said the country was unable to harness deposits of rare earth metals needed for research in the sector.

“China has 89 per cent of the rare earth metals deposits [in the world], and it has started to embargo and deny access to them,” he said. “We have to develop capabilities to utilise our natural resources. One or two scientific laboratories can’t do this. It should be a combined effort of all academic institutions, laboratories and universities.”

He said India had not been able to develop a disruptive technology that would redefine, change and open new windows of research to develop innovative materials for the defence sector. “Titanium is used in almost all aerospace engines. We are not able to come up with world-class engines just because we don’t have a good supply of such a material. The bullet-proof jackets used by U.S. forces are eight to 10 kg heavier and do not suit our forces. We have to reduce the weight of bullet-proof jackets by at least half, but have not reached there yet,” he said.

‘Make in India’ needs a new materials push: DRDO chief - The Hindu

Finally the emphasis is in correct direction.

I say post Chander to a new post that specifically combines the effort of all academic institutions, laboratories and universities into one sustainable platform. If there was ever a man who has proven his competency so far in India....it is him. Give hime a shot, if he is interested in helping the motherland