India has been a power deprived country for so long and all our lives we have lived with power cuts. Here is a chance for India to become self sufficient in power generation and we have babus playing spoil sport. Perhaps they are not getting enough attention.
This particular department should be scrapped since it has failed miserably to address the need of our country even after being in existence for the last many years and guzzling billions of tax payers money. Perhaps they are afraid that the new technology would expose the crap work they have been doing for the last many years.
PSUs are good for nothing especially in the strategic defence sectors. Look at DRDO. All it is good at is producing some craneberry juice. This week CAG pointed out that all our warships are sitting ducks because they dont have a sonar. The reason, DRDO failed to deliver. Other example would be the MBT Arjun which is so miserable that our army is scared of inducting it, but for the government pressure. The LCA being developed by HAL would probably take another 100 years to develope. HAL miserably failed to produce the Kaveri engine which was supposed to be the heart of LCA. When air superiority fighters are touching Mach 3 and 4 our HAL comes with a subsonic engine to power the 'next generation' of fighters! ISRO smuggled crucial missile technology from the US as recent as Apr-2006 as mentioned in the US congressmen letter to the PM. And everybody would remember the hullballu when we were denied the cryogenic engines for our space programme. Did we build it ourseleves. No. They were finally imported quietly after a few years.
Guys lets not have pride which is not backed by substance. It sounds good to say we will manage do it ourselves, but can we. Lets us not keep this false pride from lighting the homes of millions of poor indians and irrigating fields of poor farmers.
