Brain Drain and Indian Defense Industry

[Waffen SS]

Is it Brain Drain that makes obstacles to make modern defense Equipment industry in India?Many claim how many brilliant students come to DRDO or to HAL so they make good weapons,I think Brian drain is one of the reason that's why we have to still depend on Foreign service?

They should all serve their motherland.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Indian Government is not very much interested to make a sufficient National Industry, It like to import which involve large size kick backs..

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DRDO Seeks $35 Billion Allocation for Five Years

In the $38-billion Defence budget presented earlier this year, the government has allocated about $2 billion for Defence research and development. It constitutes less than five per cent of the country's Defence budget.

India's Defence research and development spending usually hovers at five per cent of the country's Defence budget, though ideally it should be eight per cent. DRDO had actually sought $3 billion for 2012-13, but got only two-thirds of what it had asked for.

Source : http://www.defencenow.com/news/778/drdo-seeks-$35-billion-allocation-for-five-years.html

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DRDO seeks Rs 1.75 lakh cr in 12th Plan period

According to officials in the Defence Ministry, the research organisation had sought for least Rs 14,000 crore, which would be around 6-7 per cent of the defence budget. In comparison, Israel and the US spend around 16 per cent of their defence budget on research and development. Though the allocation for the current budget is a slight increase over last year's allocation, in absolute terms it will be less, because the defence budget was bolstered substantially later in 2011-12. Ideally defence research should be getting 7-8 per cent of the defence budget.

There is need to invest more funds in basic research infrastructure and cutting edge technology development. At present major portions of the apex body's budget goes towards salaries, strategic projects etc, leaving little for fundamental research and infrastructure.

Source : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com...akh-cr-in-12th-plan-period/article3624632.ece

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DRDO chief wants 7% of defence budget for R&D

The DRDO's allocation of Rs 10,610 crore for 2013-14, would have been higher by Rs 3,650 crore if it had been allocated 7 per cent of the defence budget. The DRDO's highest funding levels were in 2007, when it received 6.2 per cent of the defence budget.

Pointing out that China was spending some 20 per cent, and the US 16 per cent of their defence budgets on R&D, Saraswat said, "Developing world-class military technologies would require an R&D allocation of minimum 10% of the defence budget."

Source : http://ajaishukla.blogspot.in/2013/04/drdo-chief-wants-7-of-defence-budget.html

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Government Replay : DRDO should focus on areas where it has capacity to deliver: Manmohan

Against the backdrop of delays in several key military projects, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, today said indigenous content in Defence procurement was "low" and asked DRDO to focus on areas where it has the capacity to deliver within a reasonable time.

Source : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com...pacity-to-deliver-manmohan/article3706924.ece

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So at the end of the day, Government spend peanuts after National defense, And spend Billions after Imports which usually comes into lime light for Corruptions and kickbacks, To make things look justified there is always some statements like the one above our PM have said, Unfortunately people dont see the reasons only run after words..

 

[Waffen SS]

So it seems for officers $$$$$$$ of Salary is not enough,so they also need $$$$$$$ from kickbacks and corruptions!!:taunt1:

 

[Bangalorean]

Of course there will be "brain drain" as long as we leave everything in the hands of the DRDOs and HALs. For the country's defence industry to progress, we need to urgently free defence manufacturing from the clutches of the HALs and NALs and DRDOs, otherwise we are doomed.

In the 1990s and earlier, there was a "brain drain" in every field in India. All the IT wallahs who work in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, etc. would have simply emigrated to the West, and those who couldn't would have taken up a job as clerks in some PSU or the other. Now, at least so many Indians have got a job in India, preventing brain drain and fueling a massive boom in the Indian domestic economy.

Until something similar happens in the defence manufacturing industry, we are condemned to suffer ineptness of the DRDOs and HALs and NALs and other sundry PSUs. All this silly emotional rhetoric of "serving the motherland" is not going to achieve anything. Until private players are allowed to form a military-industrial complex in India, there is no hope.