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Regional Eco Planning | Round Tables
SCCI India Advanced Technology Promotion
IGES Geo Economics - story of rich states
Complex Systems
Innovation Economics

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kaeyuuraNina bhuushayamti purusham
haara na chandroajvala
na snaanam na vilepanam na kusumam
naalamkruta muurdhaja

vaaNyeka samalamkaroti purusham
yaa samskruta dhaaryate
kshiiyamtaekhila bhuushaNani satatam
vaagbhuushaNa bhuushaNam

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Visakhapatnam - Nagpur connectivity to follow ?

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

🏗️ CM Devendra Fadnavis has asked GMR to complete the next phase of Nagpur Airport's redevelopment by 2029.

📈 Passenger capacity will rise from 3 million initially to 30 million annually in later phases.

🌍New cargo facilities, MRO infrastructure, a second runway and international connectivity are expected.
https://t.co/RbbAGrQGnU

[Nimal Raghavan @being_nimal]

Sincere gratitude to Zoho Corporation for supporting us in the restoration of these seven lakes across the Thanjavur and Pudukkottai districts. Heartfelt thanks on behalf of the villagers for your invaluable support @svembu sir!

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India can make everything

Our politicians are terrified by that prospect

[Banti agarawala @AgarawalaB27486]

IIT Bombay Students Build DIY Chip-Making Lab in 10 Months ..get open offer from @bhash @OlaElectric 🎉

Starting in August 2025, the team built HackerFab—a lithography system, tube furnace, and plasma sputter—producing their first devices by June 2026

The IIT Bombay student-built research fab is a great example of developing indigenous

Today’s research lab can become tomorrow’s manufacturing ecosystem.

Congratulations to the entire team. This is the kind of engineering capability that strengthens India’s long-term semiconductor journey. 🇮🇳🔬 @hackerfabindia

[Professor John Hearn @jbhearn]

Andy Burnham hasn’t asked me to advise on how the economy should be managed.

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Too easy to answer !

[Professor John Hearn @jbhearn]

Andy Burnham hasn’t asked me to advise on how the economy should be managed.

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Of course everything is a giant step for India !

Wonder why our PCI remains at $2750

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Airbound, a Bengaluru-based aerospace company, has signed an MoU with the AP Drone Corporation (APDC) for developing a scalable drone delivery network across the Amaravati capital region, marking a significant step towards building aerial logistics infrastructure in India.

https://t.co/JB5oQBYyUt

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Unfortunately for such an ambitious initiative - SIPs reduce the market for PCBs all the time

Good luck !

[Murali Srinivasa @MuraliSrinivasa]

This is the site where our new 100 acre Integrated PCB mega campus will be built in 🇮🇳

We have been working hard to fix the structual gaps in PCB manufacturing in 🇮🇳

Some of the problems are harder than we think and it takes time to fix those.
We have been working on fixing all those problems that every single customer has told us over time and we work hard to make sure that each of those are fixed by identifying the root cause.

Our dedicated team of Terra Circuits will be focused on some of these infrastructre related problems.

PCB Fabs- Inspired by the way TI expanded semicon fabs in Dallas, we will be taking a similar approch here. There will be multiple Fab Units that will be built over time in this campus.

PCBA- we will have enough lines to support our customers scaling to larger numbers.

Components warehouse- a fully automated warehouse to ship components the same or next day.

R&D center- to research and build technologies related to manufacturing, not just pcb. Semicon and advanced applied engg.

I am dedicating my next 10 years building this campus and change the way electronics gets manufactured in 🇮🇳

#JaiHind

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Governments that focus on improving public good are so rare these days

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

🛣️ Delhi govt has approved a ₹657.9 crore road modernisation programme.

🚧 More than 270 km of roads across East, North and South Delhi will be upgraded by October.

🚦 Key corridors including Outer Ring Road, GT Road, Nelson Mandela Marg and Barapullah Road are covered. https://t.co/wj0lCZl2xx

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

🛣️ Delhi govt has approved a ₹657.9 crore road modernisation programme.

🚧 More than 270 km of roads across East, North and South Delhi will be upgraded by October.

🚦 Key corridors including Outer Ring Road, GT Road, Nelson Mandela Marg and Barapullah Road are covered. https://t.co/wj0lCZl2xx

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These foreigners will now enter India and spend Rs 5 crores buying scientific equipment from the very same vendors that sold them to their foreign labs

This looks like an MNC grand scheme

Full marks to PM @narendramodi for once again falling into the "NRI-MNC" trap

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 India is offering upto Rs 60 lakh a year and 5 crore in research grants to bring researchers back to India.

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How naive can one be !

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

THEY'RE PUTTING THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS AND THAT'S THE SUREST SIGN OF INVESTOR CONFIDENCE IN INDIA'S GROWTH STORY.
Here are some of the biggest commitments by global companies:
+ Feb 2026 Google: $15 billion
Google announced a five-year $15 billion AI infrastructure plan, including subsea connectivity, data centres, cloud capacity and AI skilling in India.
+ Mar 2026 ABB announced a $75 million investment in India to expand manufacturing and R&D capabilities across critical industrial segments.
Jun 2026 AirTrunk: $30 billion
Australia’s AirTrunk announced plans to invest $30 billion in India to build 5 GW of data centre capacity by 2030.
Jun 2026 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board committed up to Rs 7,000 crore with CtrlS Datacenters to expand India’s digital infrastructure and hyperscale data centre capacity.
Jun 2026 Saint-Gobain announced another €1 billion investment in India over the next five years, calling India one of its fastest-growing markets.
+ Jun 2026 Amazon: $48 billion
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met PM Narendra Modi and announced plans to take Amazon’s India investment commitment to $48 billion by 2030, including fresh AI and cloud infrastructure expansion.

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A maritime board's main job is to inspect and
certify ships and ports !

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This is where PM @narendramodi has to take his cabinet portfolio - science and technology far more seriously and draft a national advanced technology promotion policy architecture

Why serve global jig-saw puzzle as a piece when India can envision it's own integrated future ?

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General response

Indian VC funded startups are created by global PE flows guided by a small number of global investors; Top level "visionaries" assemble global teams through targeted investments across the planet;

Like a jig-saw puzzle; The pieces fit together by design

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General response

Indian VC funded startups are created by global PE flows guided by a small number of global investors; Top level "visionaries" assemble global teams through targeted investments across the planet;

Like a jig-saw puzzle; The pieces fit together by design

[ASHWANI MAHAJAN @ashwani_mahajan]

“How a call led to Kunal Shah becoming WhatsApp's new global CEO?
https://t.co/VyfmnZtae9
-via inshorts” But it’s believed there is much bigger story behind this development! What it is? Can industry people guide?

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Start with a Maritime Tech Park ! Promote local small enterprises with capability to create globally competitive capital good for ship building

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

⚓ Odisha plans nearly ₹50,000 crore in maritime investments.

🏗️ A deep-sea port at Bahuda and a shipbuilding cluster near Paradip are being advanced.

🚢 The projects aim to boost cargo handling, exports, shipbuilding, logistics and industrial development along India's east coast. https://t.co/lOAmVtBTBV

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India must put some effort into understanding how ancient Indian education systems worked and try to implement policies to bring back best practices from the past

[ASHWANI MAHAJAN @ashwani_mahajan]

I think India should also not allow profiteering from basic education https://t.co/UmBudaVwGE

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@rbi @nsitharaman @narendramodi @PiyushGoyal

If all of these play out as described - Indian Rupee will sink - leave Indian advanced technology economy to Indian advanced tech firms

[Rajan Anandan @RajanAnandan]

$48 Billion of new investment between 2026 and 2030 from @amazon in India! That is almost $10B a year. The #s are beginning to ramp for AI infra buildout in India. Total AI stack investment commits across Reliance, Adani, Tata, Google and Amazon now approaching $400B over the next few years. Just announcements made from January of this year. Still pales in comparison to the $800B of annual AI capex globally this year, but 2026 is shaping up to be the year when AI in India gets going.

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This is not how an advanced tech economy is built

It is built by advanced tech firms - painstakingly moving forward through decades of R&D

India lacks national advanced technology promotion policy architecture

PM @narendramodi needs to take advanced technology more seriously

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

India’s 350 kmph B35 bullet train plan moves ahead as NHSRCL begins capability assessment.

🔹 Rolling stock makers invited
🔹 Indigenous platform in focus
🔹 Future high-speed corridors targeted

https://t.co/1fSYF35zN5

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"Will" is an english word that is best avoided in day to day usage

[Aashish Chandorkar @c_aashish]

"The landmark India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will help Indian farmers, fishermen, artisans and small businesses prosper globally and accelerate job creation. It will enable the common man to access high-quality goods at competitive prices, contributing significantly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Viksit Bharat 2047 mission."

- Minister @PiyushGoyal ji

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True - but India largely dominates all forms of cricket -
T20/One Day/Five Day ending up in the top 3 of pretty much all tournments

This is indeed a resource allocation challenge

Dominant players in India capture everything resulting crowding out the rest of the ecosystem

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

Hockey is the best example of colonialism in sport:
India won eight Olympic gold medals in field hockey. Eight. On natural grass, with a style of play built on individual brilliance, close control, and improvisation that no other nation could match.
Then came artificial turf, which was introduced at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Overnight, the classical Indian game was rendered obsolete. The dribble was neutralized. Power and stamina replaced skill and artistry. European and Australian teams, better suited to the faster, harder surface, rose. India fell.
Coincidence? Perhaps. But the pattern is too familiar to ignore: when India dominates under one set of rules, the rules change.
The IPL is India rewriting the rules for once. On our terms. With our audiences. And our money.
You adjust now @BeefyBotham @MichaelVaughan.