New Delhi: Towards developing self-reliance in manufacturing, the Department of Heavy Industry (DHI) organised an online workshop 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat – Collaboration in Manufacturing.' This first-of-its-kind event saw a cross-section of Indian manufacturing organisations coming together to dwell upon the next steps for increased cooperation in indigenous manufacturing. The workshop aimed at fostering better utilisation of assets across industries to find solutions by collaborative R&D for the development of technologies behind imports.
The workshop was chaired by Department of Heavy Industry's Secretary Arun Goel and attended by more than 120 participants, comprising senior DHI officers, heads and senior executives of CPSEs, Indian private sector companies, and multinational companies engaged in manufacturing, as well as senior representatives of trade associations. India's leading engineering and manufacturing enterprise, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) made a presentation outlining its capabilities during the workshop.
Highlighting the need for rapid growth in domestic manufacturing envisioned in the government's target of 25 percent contribution from the manufacturing sector to GDP by 2025, Goel said that the workshop was an initiative for kick-starting regular interaction and collaboration between various Indian organisations to achieve an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. Indigenous capabilities available for design, R&D, prototyping, manufacturing and testing in many of the CPSEs can be made available to all stakeholders for seamless co-operation between the public and private sectors for which technology platforms were also being developed, he said.
BHEL's Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Dr Nalin Shinghal outlined the Research & Development (R&D), engineering, manufacturing and testing capabilities of BHEL and invited companies to associate with BHEL for achieving this important national mission. Participants from non-power sector companies, as also customers dependent on imported components/ sub-assemblies/ assemblies, who are looking forward to indigenising their supply chains, evinced keen interest in working with BHEL. BHEL CMD stressed on the need to identify specific technologies and aggregate demand to achieve scale.
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