Make in India

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has quite rightly voiced his concern over the country becoming a large and perennial importer of telecom gear. Quite apart from the phenomenon representing a facet of our technological vulnerability, the rupee's recent depreciation has made imports expensive too, undermining efforts at increasing teledensity. The Indian market for telecom equipment – from switches, routers and base station systems to microwave radios, optical fibre links and mobile handsets – was estimated at Rs 54,675 crore in 2009-10. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reckons that just over 12 per cent of this demand was met through domestic value addition.

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