Drdo products suffer utmost from efficient quality control methods at ordnance factories. The government's holding should be diluted to 51% , if it still doesn't reach the private efficiency of 90% from the current 60%. Then sell the entire stake to a single private entity with controling stake.
As an engineering student, i've visited both private and public sector units for training. From what i saw, integral coach factory at vilivakam, chennai was sustained largely from goverment orders, even exports to srilanka were part of government aid to improve its war ravaged northern region. While a lesser known fenner india ltd, madurai,tn. Was survived by growing to market needs. This company supplies belts of power transmission for automobies and other equipment. They tuned themselves for the need of the customer. While they faced competition from small units that were really cost effective, they responded by cutting labour force. Employment by contract basis. While at icf, all i saw were slogans, innumerable unions, employees crowed at one work place and a large number of machines out of comision, under repair, cog webed etc. But what i saw at fenner a sleek implementation of the basic iso standards to tqm, ppm,5-s etc. But in icf quality was defined in their own language as 'to achieve utmost quality standards'. the rest of the 10 days, i searched for those quality standards. But found none. Fenner marketed its goods internationally by proposition of a brand name that was new, customer specific like '100ppm target for ford', and a specific sales department for exports with europeon quality targets. Even my post training record was asked to be hand-written and wasn't even verified in icf. At fenner, it was a combination of soft copy and a hard presentation, it went through from hr to general manager and appraisal of my work from him drew a sense of satisfaction. There wasn't a export specific unit at icf. With all of india's strategic units at government hands exports won't be a priority while private entreprenors would be reduced to marketing components and subsystems that are not as much value added.