I looked at this initiative but do not really understand it. Like these restrictions can be circumvented very easily (with some amount of mental gymnastics).
Let me elaborate with only 2 examples from my side as I am more familiar with these two:
1. LCA like fighter aircraft import is blocked; But then LCA is currently in light weight category. IA can always argue that F16/F21/Gripen E/C etc are medium weight category and hence restriction do not apply to them. F35 is single engine, so we cannot bring restriction with respective to single engine fighters as well.
2. LCH is light combat heli. But again IA/IAF can always argue that hey Apache is totally different heavy category helicopter. So we will buy 50 of them and give lolipop of 25 LCH orders until XXX is integrated/improved. In short this policy is no guarantee of support to home built systems and does nothing really.
The proof of the success of "Atmanirbhar: make in india" is orders.. improvement in R&D spending to make better products. Also in reality it make sense to import 70% (home)-30% (high end imported) complementing local platforms. Like ok we have Astra-1 (pretty good) but that does not mean we don't need Meteor/AIM-20 like long range BVR to maintain upper hand. Just giving example not applicable to all cases.
@porky_kicker I looked through some of your posts. Can you clarify my doubts if you have any clarity?