Make in India

'Make In India' as the name suggests is an open invitation to companies both global and local to manufacture in India. "Come manufacture in India. Sell in any country of the world but manufacture here. We have got skill, talent, discipline and determination to do something; to create something” were the words of PM Narendra Modi.

What good will the manufacturing do to us?

It will employ hundreds of people needed to manufacture the products, which will leave us with better health and living conditions, the poor becoming the new middle class, increased buying power, more bank deposits and a stable economy. But our Indian industrialists would prefer expensive machines to cheap and readily available labour, thanks to our stringent labour laws.

To live the dream of Make in India, we need FDI (foreign direct investment) for which it is imperative that we First Develop in India which requires that we First Discover India and find she can offer.

The Make In India campaign was launched by PM Modi in the presence of a host of Indian and foreign business tycoons. In his hour long extempore, he spoke about 25 odd sectors which were open to FDI, pharmacy, railways, tourism, wellness-to name a few. To make the campaign a success he promised ‘red tape' to be changed to 'red carpet'. The World Bank's 'Ease of Doing Business Rankings' ranks India as low as 134th out of 189. To achieve our aim of 22% GDP by 2022, this must be changed. In India it takes 168 days to get a construction permit and 1420 days to enforce contracts. E-governance was proposed to make this process easier and faster. All clearances and permits could be obtained online without the entrepreneurs having to bang doors of various departments, thus attempting to reduce red Tapism to a minimal.

Moreover, it was assured that the Central and State Government would work towards change and provides clarity to certain business and labour laws.

Two terms which form the essence of the Make in India process are 'Look East' and 'Link West' which implies that if the technologies of the west and the resources of the east could be used together, success could be redefined.

But as some say, is this campaign too good to be real? Can all the points put forth be really accomplished? For this we must first question ourselves whether we as individuals and as a nation are ready for change the 'mera kya, mujhe kya ' attitude with which we wish to spend our lives with.

To reach great heights we must work hard enough to prove our capacity to the world, so that instead of a nation of snakes and black magic, it becomes state having magic of manufacturing and technology.

Our work should have 'Zero Defect'-atleast to the best of our knowledge and 'Zero Effect' or minimal adverse effect on our surroundings.

(Aditi Singh)