Articles By Prof (Dr) SN Misra
A Paradigm Shift in Indo-US Defense Cooperation
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jun , 2023
The agreement signed between US President Biden and Indian PM Modi on 22nd June 2023, marks a new beginning in the defense partnership between the oldest and biggest democratic countries. It has...
Idea whose time has come
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jun , 2023
On 24th July 1991 when Dr Manmohan Singh was presenting the budget, he was cognizant of the plethora of economic ills that plagued India; inflation hovering around 14%, cost of interest to total...
De-Globalization and Road Ahead for India’s Defence Manufacturing
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2023
Trade is an engine of growth and has been a major factor in impacting GDP handsomely, in both developed and developing economies since the 1970s. From a measly share of 8% in global output in the...
Ideology and Civil Services in India
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2023
Max Weber had argued that bureaucracy constitutes “the most efficient and rational way in which human activity can be organized and that systematic process and organized hierarchies are...
Defense Allocation, Reforms, Reality & The Way Forward
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2023
The Indian economy has been an outlier in terms of growth, clocking a 7.1% increase in GDP during 2022-23, and is expected to achieve 6.5% growth in 2023-24. Agriculture has proved to be a robust...
The PLI Scheme: An Apparition or a Game Changer
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2022
Professor Raghuram Rajan, has stirred a hornet’s nest by attacking the grandiose PLI scheme which aims at making manufacturing in India globally competitive; calling it a myopic and policy...
Two Cheers To INS Vikrant
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2022
India has the dubious reputation of being the largest importer of conventional arms (SIPRI Yearbook). Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, heading a committee to suggest improving India’s self-reliance...
Capacity, Autonomy and Venality: The Larger Challenges of Governance
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2022
Mr. Suba Rao, previously RBI Governor, has stirred a hornet’s nest by calling the IAS’ elitist, self-serving, perpetuating a set of bureaucrats who are out of touch with reality and wallow in...
‘Atmanirbharta’ in Defence Manufacturing
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Feb , 2022
Economic liberalization came to defence manufacturing in 2001, a decade after liberalization in other sectors, which then permitted full partnership of private sector and equity inflow of 26% from...
Corporatisation of OFB and Bolstering Military Industry Capability
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Vol. 36.4, Oct-Dec 2021 | Date: 28 Jan , 2022
Introduction Atmanirbhar Bharat has been touted as an umbrella concept (2014) for promoting efficiency, competition and resilience in the Indian industry, providing level playing field to the...
Corporatisation of OFB & Fault lines of India’s Military Industry Capability
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Oct , 2021
Corporatisation was listed as one of the 167 transformational ideas to be implemented in the first 100 days of NDA manifesto (2019). The delay in corporatisation of 41 ordnance factories which...
Major Structural Reform for Defence Modernization
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Feb , 2021
Introduction The Union Budget 2021-22 has come in the backdrop of severe economic crisis, induced by a global Covid-19 pandemic. The Indian economy, whose growth was already decelerating in...
More Than A Bhadralok
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Date: 02 Sep , 2020
I had the privilege of working with four Defence Ministers,beginning with Sri Mulayam Singh Yadav (1996-98), Sri George Fernandes (1998-2004), Dr. Pranab Mukherjee (2004-06) and Sri A. K. Antony...
Far reaching reforms in Defense Production
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2020
As a part of PM’s grand initiative to combat COVID and looming economic crisis, the FM has been unveiling a slew of major initiative to resuscitate MSMEs, Power sector, migrant workers, farmers...
India’s Aerospace Industry: Structure, Strategies, Policies and the Road Ahead
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Vol. 34.4 Oct-Dec 2019 | Date: 29 Jan , 2020
The aerospace industry accounts for nearly 40 percent of global military expenditure which stood at $1,822 billion last year (Sipri 2018). The US is a major player in terms of military expenditure...
Reforms in Defence Acquisition
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2020
Defence is a strategic component of Sovereign India and the Services have the onerous responsibility to discharge this ‘integrity’ mandate. The expenditure, that the country commits, though...
The challenges before Chief of Defence Staff
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2020
General Bipin Rawat has taken over as the first CDS of India, he will function as a Secretary in a newly created Department of Military Affairs within the Ministry of Defence. He will be the...
The Uncertain Terrain of Chief of Defence Staff
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2019
John F. Kennedy had said “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion, without the discomfort of thought”. In voicing an opinion on the recently announced creation of a CDS by the PM on the...
India’s Defence Budget for 2019-20: The Disturbing Trends
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Jul , 2019
The General Budget for 2019-20 can be pigeonholed as a ‘wish list’ for infrastructure to propel India to a $5 trillion economy by 2024. The new Finance Minister has sought to change the syntax...
A Road Map for the New Defence Minister
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jun , 2019
Like Mr. Modi’s googly in the general election, the shifting of Rajnath Singh to the South Block is nothing short of a Chinaman. And the country he has to checkmate in the coming years in terms...