India on Friday issued a white paper on Focused Interventions
for ‘Make in India’: Post COVID 19’ by TIFAC, where it sought industrialists to
look for a local solution for a global pandemic.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, who released the White paper
asked industrialists, Research and Policy Bodies to refer the White Paper in
designing the path for the upliftment of the economy and follow recommendations “directed
towards giving immediate technology and policy impetus to make India
‘ATMANIRBHAR’”.
He said India has been
largely successful in mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 so far. “We got the
opportunity to position ourselves as a global manufacturing hub with a big push
under ‘Make In India’ with the adoption of appropriate technology and policy
reforms and focused thrust in crucial sectors”.
The Minister said “This
calls for furthering investment in developing infrastructure,
industrialization, strengthening supply chain mechanism, creating demand for goods
and services, converting farming into a business proposition …… The current
pandemic is global, but the solutions to the challenge should be local.”
The white paper stressing
on “Focused Interventions for ‘Make in India’: Post COVID 19” and “Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Status, Issues,
Technology Readiness and Challenges” was prepared by Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC)-- an autonomous organization set up in 1988 under the
Department of Science & Technology to look ahead in technology
domain, assess the technology trajectories and support innovation by networked
actions in select areas of national importance.
The TIFAC said in its paper that the road to national economic recovery would traverse through measures like Policy support to unconventional strategies, leveraging into new international partnerships in important sectors of Agriculture, Electronics, Health, ICT, Manufacturing & providing new technology stimulus.
The White paper has
highlighted five sectors that would be critical for India’s economic growth, using
technology stimulus and charted out sector-specific as well as aggregate policy
and technological recommendations. The document also presents models of
recovery of Indian economy, leveraging new international partnerships in
important sectors based on national priorities and technological strength.
The White Paper by TIFAC
presents a compelling map of high priority sectors, technologies, and
strategies to fuel growth in the time of COVID-19 and immediately beyond. The
sector-wise reports being worked on currently would also be an invaluable
resource in defining the opportunities even more sharply, says Dr. V K
Saraswat, Chairman TIFAC Governing Council.
White Paper has captured sector-specific
strengths, market trends, and opportunities in five sectors, critical from the
country’s perspective, includes healthcare, machinery, ICT, agriculture,
manufacturing, and electronics with reference to supply and demand,
self-sufficiency and mass-scale production capacity.
It has identified policy options
primarily in the areas of Public health system, MSME sector, Global relations:
FDI, recalibrated trade alignments, and new-age technologies, TIFAC claimed.
This is precisely important for the development of technology clusters in
champion segments, creating Technology Start-up Exchange, identifying,
supporting, and piloting ten blockbuster technologies and collaborating with
new dynamics with incubators of Israel, Germany, towards promoting import
substitution as well as evolving technology platforms in sunrise technologies,
Dr Saraswat said.
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