The Mission "make in India" is promoted by the government recently. But "made by India" is necessary in the current crisis.
Researchers are rapidly increasing on Electronic Engineering field. Especially in India, No. of Publications and No. of Ph.Ds are increasing to reach a new peak every year. But most of the research papers,thesis are only in paper with out product outcome. What kind of initiation is required from government side in this regard? Is conventional politics affecting the development of Science and technology?
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The most important thing about learning and presenting is practical knowledge which is lack in most of the Indian institution. So from the schools, students should be made to actively participate in internships of their interest. The role of govt is to encourage and engage schools and colleges to provide necessary arrangements and must make some stirct rules for the institutions to stop avoiding internships as it is concerned as a burden. Students must know how things work, so don't cease them right after learning the concept. They must do it to know it in most of the cases. This may increase working labour (so called engineers) to put, adopt, create and produce new technologies. Thus Make in India will effectively work in India.
I think to T Thammi Reddy point, it is only a Trillion rupee ($14 Billion) industry in India. The current cost of a 14nm fab (which is not state of the art, but state of practice) is around $14 Billion, so it is difficult for the semiconductor industry in India, whose entire market is less than or equal to the value to build one moderate technology factory in that industry, to grow in any meaningful way. India has huge capacity to assemble and test finished semiconductor products, but does not have any significant capacity to produce the underlying semiconductor die, which require these very large, and expensive factories. These factories also typically take years to build in countries with completely developed semiconductor fab industries, so building one in a new locale will probably take even longer. I would imagine the construction to take at least 8 to 10 years. In addition, there are a number of ancillary advanced high technology industries which must exist to support the semiconductor fabrication industry, which India also does not currently have, which would also need to be setup and successful prior to the start of any initiation of a semiconductor fab factory.
The Indian government would not only need to provide very lucrative incentives to all of these industries (free money, free loans, complete bankruptcy protection, and guaranteed bailouts), as the governments of South Korea, Taiwan, and China have done in order to catch up to more established semiconductor industries in the USA, Japan, and Europe, but also guarantee a return on the investment by either requiring large portions of electronics purchased by the government (offices, schools, military), or complete tax exemptions and subsidies until profitability is reached. In the instance that all electronics purchased by the government must be locally made, there will be a 5 to 10 year gap during which the local electronics will be inferior or more expensive, or both to those imported from other countries, which will make non-subsidized or non-government sales more difficult. The Indian government would need to have these policies in place for at least 15 to 20 years, independent of changes in the government or leading party, to get investors interested in such a project.
Semiconductors are a fundamentally expensive, slow, and typically a low margin industry, so unless there is a concerted effort from the Indian government across all political parties, the private sector will not risk tens of billions of dollars to create an industry where one doesn't exist if there are better areas in which to invest said billions.
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