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Make it the Indian way

If ‘Make in India’ is to succeed, it needs to encompass ‘Make it the Indian Way’.
Industrial 3D printing has begun to transform manufacturing in Western countries.
“ADDITIVE TECHNOLOGY” Ford Motors cutting down its cost of creating a new car prototype from six months and several hundred thousand dollars to four days and $4,000.
Traditional manufacturing of mechanical parts involves making a mould and then stamping out parts by thousands every day.

Additive manufacturing: Changing features or tweaking shapes is a simple software change effected in minutes.
Retooling of machines is not required and each unit can be customised.
Adaptive manufacturing reduces capital and space requirements. Opportunities in India

U.S. manufacturers shows that about 12% have started using additive manufacturing for their products and expectations are that this will result in about 25% of products in the next three-five years.
Nearly all hearing aid manufacturers now use additive manufacturing.
For countries that have already invested in heavy manufacturing, this shift to adaptive manufacturing will be difficult and expensive.
Accelerate research at our premier engineering schools on manufacturing machines and methods and encourage formation of product design centres so that the products built suit the Indian environment and consumers.
A combination of science and art, with a pinch of Indian entrepreneurship

Institutions provide the framework for individuals and systems to function.
Their breakdown leads to a breakdown of societal functioning — democracy is weakened, the sense of justice is eroded and the Opposition is sought to be suppressed.
The tainted not only survive but also get promoted and damage institutions.
If institutions are strong, they are respected and it becomes difficult to manipulate them.
It enables the honest to survive.
In strong institutions, individual corruption is an aberration but when they weaken, it becomes generalised.
It leads to individualisation, illegality becomes acceptable and the collective interest suffers.
Central Bureau of Investigation
Reserve Bank of India
Central Vigilance Commission
Intelligence Bureau
Research and Analysis Wing
Election Commission
Civil Service Rules in Central universities

After the heat and dust of the last one month, the board meeting of the Reserve Bank of India on Monday turned out to be muted and professional, as it should have been.
Two of the biggest concerns of the Centre where it was expecting an immediate resolution — relaxation of the Prompt Corrective Action framework on 11 public sector banks and provision of liquidity for non-banking financial companies — will be addressed at a future date.
The RBI has been transferring all of its surpluses to the Centre in the last five years based on the recommendations of an earlier committee led by Y.H. Malegam.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): no joint communiqué issued
U.S. and China, clashed
The U.S. has been urging China to increase market access and grant intellectual property protections for American corporations, cut back on industrial subsidies and, at a broader level, bring down the $375- billion trade gap.
IMF downgrading its global growth outlook for this year and the next to 3.7%, down 0.2 percentage points from an earlier forecast.
Institutionally, multilateral rule-making bodies such as the WTO may lose their authority, and an interlocking system of bilateral trade treaties and punitive sanctions networks may substitute the consensus-based approach that was forged so painstakingly after World War II.

The electoral system used exclusively in Maine in House polls features not just a choice of the candidates, but also a preferential ranking of them.
A voter can choose just one candidate, but also rank candidates in an order of preference.
If a candidate wins 50% of the mandate plus one vote, she is declared the winner.
But if the candidate falls short of this threshold, the candidates are ranked again based on their second choices.
And if this still falls below the threshold, the contest moves on to the third round, and so on.

Blast at ammunition depot in Wardha leaves six dead
Miffed SC adjourns hearing in Alok Verma case to Nov. 29
34 years after anti-Sikh riots, man sentenced to death
A court here on Tuesday sentenced one person to death and awarded life imprisonment to his co-convict for killing two during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The killings had taken place at Mahipalpur in south Delhi.
Farmers badly hit by note ban: Ministry

India offers many roads, says President
India and Vietnam “share a vision for the Indo-Pacific” and will launch their first “Bilateral Maritime Security Dialogue” in early January, announced President Ramnath Kovind during a visit to Hanoi, as he took a broad swipe at China’s Belt and Road Initiative in an address to the National Assembly on Wednesday.
50 killed in Afghan suicide attack on religious gathering