Modi revives three-decade-old plan to build India’s first passenger jet, a 14-seat aircraft, called Saras
First, fix the media to limit wishful thinking! Not a jet!!!
If the spinning is a product of the Indian psyche, fix that.
So how do you make a business case for this plane?.
Ah! Important! India certainly doesn't lack imagination
and projects abound but only to contest each other or
run uncompleted for years, both of which cost lotsa $.
How about an agency
( I know you guys have too many already but still )
solely dedicated to selecting objectives by need as well
as enforcing deadline & results with termination powers?
Could be one for each function too, to
"save" more Babus.
Another derivative way to find a market is to create it.
Let's suppose that you pool all civilian pax & transport
airplanes used by any level of your central government,
possibly some of the states' air assets/need with it.
Then, contrary to IAF, you re-equip it over time with a
unified fleet of indigenous planes whenever posible and
only buy foreign for needs unaddressed by Bharatiya OEMs.
And that is the gift that keeps on giving! For a land the
size of India, the savings would be commensurate with
your hundred(s) possible routes for such an aircraft.
Instead of 14 seater it should be a meduim seater say 40-60 seats. Will be helpful on feeder routes.
That would have the Saras compete with say ATR42s!
As said above, why not make stuff with a market?
Already in a country infused with anything Indian is sub par,
That's why you need to limit the flourish so cream can rise!
Check out ISRO. When Indians select a task with a precise
way to go about it and there is no squandering of efforts in
so many if not all directions, they usually succeed.
From astronomy to space rockets as well as in mathematics,
when the going gets linear and logical, India has performed.
It's when your 1,2 billion Prime Ministers try to steer the nat.
boat each their direction, when your 1,2 billions aeronautics
expert each chime in on the next plane ... etc, until shrieks
drown out reason and they all go nuts & invoke a different god
that things crawl to the speed of a sloth covered in molasses
crossing a quicksand field.
You just need to isolate the best from the rest and give them
clear tasks, away from the communal hullabaloo and keep
those groups streamlined so a hundred, a thousand, heck a
million officials don't derail it by uttering their own view to
journalists and passerby until its sounds like a worst mess
than it really is.
And then success breeds success.
Merely IMHoO, of course!
I'll be watching that little crane to see if it delivers babies.
Great day all, Tay.
