Indigenisation of nuts and bolts can’t be a cause for celebration

[JackSeal]

The Press Release circulated by the Press Information Bureau claimed that the list had been notified ‘as (a) part of the efforts to achieve self-reliance in defence manufacturing and minimise imports’ by the DPSUs.
It sounded very impressive but browsing through the list made the heart sink, for it includes several types of nuts, bolts, screws, bushes, washers, gaskets, pins, hoses, sealing rings, rivets, clamps, plugs, elbows, and jets.  In some cases, different sizes of the same item have been listed separately to expand the list.

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Ante ivi kuda import chesulovala endi.