Jindal Stainless hosted a conference on strategic defence materials for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, in partnership with the Ministry of Defence and the Indian Army in Hisar. The day started with the inauguration of a shooting range by Managing Director, Jindal Stainless, Abhyuday Jindal along with Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister, Dr G Satheesh Reddy. This was followed by various discussions ranging from the futuristic requirements of the sector to the challenges faced in indigenisation, and the DRDO’s vision for domestic manufacturers.
During the conference, Dr G Satheesh Reddy congratulated Jindal Stainless for playing an active role in India’s highly paced developmental journey. He appreciated the organisation’s efforts in sectors of automation, quality consciousness and safety at the workplace. Reddy also highlighted that materials and manufacturing sectors are the pillars of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and hence there is a need to identify the gaps in these sectors and fill them with innovative technological solutions.
Jindal Stainless is committed to empower the government’s vision to ‘Make in India for the world’ and bring the manufacturing of world-class defence material requirements back to the nation. Such conferences will pave the way for smoother industry-government collaboration, as per Abhyuday Jindal, Managing Director, Jindal Stainless.
According to C P Agrawal, Defence Business Head, Jindal Stainless, the right policy reforms aimed at banning or reducing imports in certain categories, such as armour steel, will help eliminate the problems of mis-declaration of imports, and the subsequent quality and safety issues arising from the usage of lower quality material for strategic applications in the defence and aerospace sector. It is the need of the hour to promote indigenous manufacturing in this sector and make India the preferred supplier for the world.