Quotes by Baba Kalyani - Page 2

So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.
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Capable
Indian
Perception
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I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.
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Leadership
Growth
Indian
Vision
Inclusive
Doubts
One Party
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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Defence
Entering
Progression
Steel
Guns
Examples
Natural Progression
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There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
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Capability
Defence
Equipment
Myth
Prove
Aside
Brush
Imported
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
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Activity
Advantage
Competitiveness
Destination
Humming
Manufacturing
Competitive
Domestic
Per
Industrial
Take Advantage
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Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
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Defined
Fund
Healthcare
Petroleum
Products
Programmes
Subsidies
Freed
Manner
Priority
Sector
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The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
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Design
Complacency
Development
Emphasis
Innovation
Manufacturing
Capabilities
Companies
Establishing
Global
However
Practices
Product
Resource
Resulted
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From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
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Customers
Discerning
Perspective
Products
Results
Scale
Chain
Exports
Manufacture
Motivates
Operational
Supply
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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
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Cost
Factors
Fixed
Products
Reducing
Basket
Export
Increasing
Industrial
Lean
Railways
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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Controlled
Empires
Good Intentions
Manufacturing
Perspective
Prime
Prime Minister
Apparatus
Good Culture World
Creates
Import
Intentions
Minister
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We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
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Components
Critical
Diesel
Engines
Heavy
Including
Insignificant
Commercial
Domestic
Engine
Entirely
Exports
Manufacture
Medium
Till
Parts
Relatively
Portion
Revenues
Vehicles
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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Capable
Components
Defence
Gun
Indian
Prove
Challenged
Colonel
Heads
Passionately
Programme
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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General Manager
Output
Productivity
Worth It
Option
Family Business
Manager
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We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
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Army
Capability
Gun
Indian
Length
Products
Range
Barrel
Guns
Field
Longer
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