The Indian automobile industry has been most carefully protected since past many years

And then we have the other hand. The Indian automobile industry has been most carefully protected since past many years. From insipidly high import duties on foreign car imports, to illogical dumping cases, and giving licenses to only the close few, our government has seen to it that local manufacturers individually are at best pathetically only capable of either producing sub-standard vehicles with technology dating three decades back (try travelling in a Tata Safari versus a Toyota Prado, or even a Honda CRV to understand our misery), or electrical generators at worst (before Toyota’s or Honda’s joint ventures, one wonders what the Kirloskars and Shrirams were doing; or what contraption of a monster Hindustan Motors was producing before the Mitsubishi tie-up). Unless the artificial protection to such select few is removed, the truly Indian automobile industry can never become a global mouthpiece for our achievements.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

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