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Discuss the role of the private sector in the technological advancements of the defence industry in India.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Industry

Indian defence manufacturing was for five decades a state monopoly of ordnance factories, Defence Public Sector Undertakings and Defence Research and Development Organisation laboratories - a strategically located, cost-plus industry whose siting at Kanpur, Jabalpur, Khadki and Bengaluru followed defence logic, not market pull.

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  • From an Ordnance Monopoly to a Mixed Industrial Base
  • Channels of Technological Advance
  • The Geography: Defence Industrial Corridors
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