Indian Air Force wants Control of HAL
As per the today news in Times of India of Website IAF has asked the Ministry of Defence to appoint its Thre Star officers as Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the only aircraft manufacturer of our country. Seeing the past results and history of HAL the bureaucratic culture needs to be removed from HAL as this crucial and vital organization of our Defence sector is not giving any results since its inception. Currently all the major project of HAL like Tejas, Hawk , Dhruv and Sukhoi-30 are running behind schedule.
At this discussion its must be mentioned that labour laws and Trade Unions are big hurdle in the path of all Public Sector Undertakings. Generally employees of these organizations are busy in union politics and election of Trade Unions. They don’t have any zeal to give their best and invent.
A major loophole in Indian strategy is that we always import technology from other why we don’t research our own. All the government and private sector industries of India are more or less Service industry not the Research / Product based industry.
Not only the bureaucratic control but the Trade Unions, labour laws and environment of these industries need to be changed completely. Also the Defence Sector PSU’s must be research oriented in real manner instead on just papers. The must develop their own research not just for import of technology otherwise the nation will always be dependent on its foreign counterparts for its defence needs and keeping buying the old technology from them at very higher rates.
The talented scientist & engineers of these organizations must be retained at higher cost and more and more talented scientist and engineers must be invited to join the Defence PSU’s because instead of spending higher on purchase of old technology it is better to invest in research and development of new technology. It can be done in phased manner.
All the red-tapism, bureaucratic hurdles and corruption must be removed from these crucial & vital organizations which are responsible for the security of Nation.


