In a statement,she said,”Through my many visits to India, I have been impressed with the creativity of the Indian people, the richness of your culture, and the resilience and strength of your democratic institutions. From the freedom movement led by Mahatma Gandhi to independence in 1947 through today, India continues to stand as a beacon for the world of the power of nonviolence and the promise of democracy.”

She made it clear that “the United States stands side by side with India in a strategic, indispensable partnership built on our shared democratic values and fundamental belief in the entrepreneurial spirit. Our governments and our people will continue to work together to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities of the 21st century, laying the foundation for continued peace and prosperity in Asia and around the world.”

Adding further she said:”As you celebrate this special day with family, friends and loved ones, know that the United States stands with you as a partner and friend.”

“Tring Tring”.Like it or not,this sound of the land line phone may become a thing of the past ,according to the fast declining number of land line phones in the Jharkhand’s capital.

The data in possession of the Jharkhand state news.com revealed that the number of land line connections had dipped to a new low -less than 57,000 during 2011-12.The corresponding figure was 1.34 lakh in 2005-06.

In the coming two years,these numbers are expected to nose dive further to less than 50,000.The decline over the years was witnessed both in urban and rural areas.
In fact,the vanishing number of land line phones is attributed to rise in the number of mobile phone users in both urban and rural areas in Jharkhand.

Interestingly,the service provider,Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd(BSNL),a Public Sector Company,had registered unprecedented growth in its Broad Band internet clients whose number had gone up from 3,977 in 2006-07 to 15,400 in 2011-12.

She went to the doctor with a complaint of stomach ache.When Sunita Devi(40)returned home,she had lost her uterus.

Devi is no strange case.Like her is Kavita Kumari(35).She alleged that when she sought diagnosis for stomach ache,the doctor told her to get her infected uterous removed.”I agreed.The operation was conducted and my uterus was taken out”,said Devi.

Investigations by a team of officials led by Palamau Deputy Commissioner Puja Singhal revealed that in Baraon village under Chainpur block in Palamau,as many as 50 women had lost their uterus.All of them were unfortunate victims of the doctors’ greed.

The modus operendi of these doctors was simple.Instead of treating them with medicines for stomach ache,they took to surgery.While using medicines to treat them fetched them sums varying between Rs 50 to Rs 100,surgery leading to removal of their uterus made them earn a sum varying between Rs 5000 to Rs 10,000 per patient.

Apparently,this ghastly crime committed by the doctors was detected by a team of officials.”When we learnt that many women had lost their uterus,we turned suspicious.We launched survey to find out why they had undergone the operation”,Singhal told the mediapersons.

The report of the survey was not made public till date.Neither the identity of any one of these doctors was known.All doctors of the area have reportedly fled.(The names of the victims were changed to protect identity).

If tribal Jharkhand has obstructed any body for land the most,it is of the several bodies of the country.Who remembers LN Mittal,Navin Jindal and Ratan Tata,who signed MoUs with the state government envisaging to set up mega steel plants in the state in early 2000’s?

The resistence by the tribals blocked them as these companies are yet to find land to set up their plants.The latest to face their protest is the Indian Army.

Today,the Army personnel are a dejected lot.”We don’t know what to do.The land is ours.But the people are not ready to part with it”,cribbed a senior Army officer.

Their story dates back to 1944 when the British government had acquired 1200 acres of land for setting up the Army establishment and the airport.Soon the air port was set up.But after the World War II ended and India gained Independence,the Army could not set set up its establishment.Result?

The land remained in possession of its owners who continued to till it.Many of them paid revenue tax and kept records of their ownership.So on Monday when the Army personnel arrived and put up flags to take possession of the land,the tribals went up in arms.They compelled them to take off their flag and get out of the land.

Now,when the Army is trying to tab the state government,tribals who are not ready to part with an inch of their land,have threatened to hit the street.”In case,the Army put pressure and used force,we will not sit idle.We will die but not give our land”,is the resolve of their leader Prakash Toppo.

The state government which had failed to help private companies find land for their plants appears helpless.

While addressing a conferenace on the launch of the United States-India Clean Energy Program: Partnership to Advance Clean Energy – Deployment (PACE-D) at
ITC Maurya Hotel,New Delhi,today,Powell said “If our longstanding cooperation in energy is any indication, I firmly believe the partnership between the United States and India will deepen further in every sense in the coming years. It is my privilege to have been entrusted by President Obama and Secretary Clinton with the job of
fostering our partnership. The interactions between our two countries at all levels are staggering in their breadth and depth and include critical global challenges like food security, health, and–as we are here to talk about today–energy and climate change.”

Powell added:”We all know that climate change and energy security are two of the most critical global challenges of the 21st century. With India’s energy consumption growing at over 7 percent annually, the country faces formidable challenges in meeting its energy demands. India needs to find a way to improve the reliability and adequacy of energy supplies while making modern energy services accessible and affordable to the entire population. Such energy security concerns prompted the United States and India to launch the first Energy Dialogue in 2005 to identify mutually beneficial initiatives that complement Indian and U.S. development, security, and economic interests.

One significant outcome of our bilateral Energy Dialogue is the Partnership to Advance Clean Energy, or “PACE,” which was launched by President Obama and Prime Minister Singh in November 2009. Over the past two and a half years, PACE has mobilized government and private sector resources from both countries to improve energy access and promote low-carbon growth.

PACE has two primary, interlinked components: a research component, known as PACE-R, led by the U.S. Department of Energy; and a deployment component, known as PACE-D, led by USAID. PACE-R works to improve energy access and promote low-carbon growth through research and development. In May 2011, the United States and India established a Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center that will mobilize $50 million from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Government of India. A consortium of U.S. and Indian researchers has also pledged $75 million for a total of $125 million that will go towards research and development. Research will focus on transformational scientific and technological cooperation in the areas of building efficiency, solar energy, and advanced biofuels.

Today, we are here to inaugurate PACE-D, which began in 2010 when USAID and the Government of India’s Ministry of Power and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy signed a bilateral agreement. After much collaboration, we are ready to launch USAID’s PACE-D technical support program.

The five-year, $20 million PACE-D contract will help India transition to a high performing, low emissions, and energy secure economy. PACE-D will work to create an environment that strengthens institutions; increases the availability of innovative financing mechanisms; and enhances local capacity to propagate clean energy
solutions.

Working together with the Ministry of Power and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, the PACE-D program will bring to the marketplace clean, reliable, and affordable technologies that increase energy efficiency. We will employ energy efficient technologies that include smart grids; “net zero” energy buildings (for example buildings that produce at least as much energy as they consume); waste heat utilization; and more efficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
These initiatives will support the Government of India’s National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency under its National Action Plan on Climate Change.

PACE-D will also improve access to energy through renewable sources. In India, the use of renewable energy resources has grown, but there is still great untapped renewable energy potential. PACE-D will assist the Government of India to:

Promote grid connected renewable energy;Expand rural electrification through micro grids; and Develop off-grid applications, such as for fossil fuel replacement,
lighting, and rooftop systems. To support renewable energy, the U.S. Embassy is replacing its old solar panels on the roof of Roosevelt House, the Ambassador’s
residence, as well as in Embassy residences.

PACE-D will also improve access to renewable energy by engaging various state and local governments. This decentralized engagement will increase access to financing, develop sustainable business models, and improve access to renewable energy. This is clearly a very ambitious agenda!

Today I am happy to announce that, after a competitive process, the contract to implement the PACE-D program has been awarded to the American consulting firm Nexant, Inc. Nexant is a well-established provider of intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions, known for pioneering, developing, and advancing electric power grid and alternative energy technologies and services. Nexant is headquartered in San Francisco, California and has 31 offices around the world.

For the PACE-D program, Nexant has organized a consortium of organizations that includes both U.S. and Indian partners who can provide a range of services and expertise.

As you can see, “partnership” is a key theme in the implementation of PACE-D. Since joining the PACE-D initiative in 2010, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation has approved or committed $741 million to clean energy projects in India. And the U.S. Trade and Development Agency has established the Energy Cooperation Program with India to promote the development of the clean energy market. These expanded financing efforts are expected to further catalyze clean energy projects in India. Together with the Government of India, we hope to capitalize on these partnerships and opportunities and take these experiences to other parts of the world. Many other countries can benefit from India’s experience in moving towards a low carbon economy. I look forward to seeing the results of this important program.”

The roads are packed with old vehicles-auto rickshaw,bus,truck,van,car and tractor.About 39000 vehicles plying in Ranchi are more than ten year old.None of them will be allowed to move in the city from August 1st.

Though these banned vehicles include school buses,the government authorities have given to the school management a fortnight till August 15 to replace them with new ones.”In case the order was not complied,these school buses will be seized”,said Sudhir Singh,district officer of the transport department.

Singh said a campaign to catch the prohibited vehicles will be launched from the first day of August.Three teams headed by Traffic SP Chandrashekhar Prasad,Traffic DY.SP Ramanand Ram and Officer in Charge Suresh Singh were set up for this purpose.

The move follows a directive by the Jharkhand High Court.As per the court’s directive a committee set up to phase out old vehicles on grounds of “environment and pollution’,had made the following recommendations:

No autorickshaw of more than ten year old will be allowed to ply after July 31;depending on the needs and requirements,new autorickshaw will be provided with permit;every auto rickshaw will have a separate colour;every auto rickshaw will have to paste its permit on its body;no vehicle of over 15 year old will be given permit from August 1;every petrol pump will put up a gas analyser so that the level of pollution can be measured;all vehicles running on diesel will be converted into CNG or LPG.

A model city that carries a state-of-the-art secretariat,legislative Assembly,High Court,Governor’s house, residences of the functionaries of three wings of the state,schools,recreation centres and institutional area are being planned in Jharkhand where a mega project has been the subject of heated debate for long.

The town of Ranchi,the capital of Jharkhand,is to be declared as “old capital.”Deliberations on the project that were put on hold since 2002 have gathered steam and the chief minister Arjun Munda reviewed it inside his official residence on Saturday.

After evaluating the power point presentation given by officials on the new capital project,Munda asked the officals to prepare the plan keeping in view the needs and requirements of the people in future.”The population in urban area is growing at a fast pace.This makes it necessary to prepare the plan with a vision”,said Munda.

It is a historical undertaking and should the state government authorities approve and implement the plan of the Greater Ranchi Development Authority,Jharkhand will be building its first major city in the next five years.

Though the construction is to be undertaken on PPP model with the state government providing land and private party making investment on it,eye brows were being raised on the plan.The critics who had witnessed collapse of many roads and bridges soon after their construction were not sanguine about its fructification in near future.

Moreover there is no unanimity among the coalition partners over the project.In fact,JMM leader and Deputy CM Hemant Soren,who is incharge of urban development ministry,is not backing the project.And yet Munda,who wanted to kick start it before the third term of his chief ministership ends in 2014,looked determined to go ahead with it.

During this visit, he discussed with key Government of India officials and defense industry leaders how the United States and India can work more closely together to ensure security and prosperity in the 21st century.

Deputy Secretary Carter’s meetings followed through on Secretary Panetta’s visit to India last month when the Secretary made clear that we must work to deepen our security partnership – so that our relationship becomes more strategic, more practical, and more collaborative. One of Secretary Panetta’s initiatives that Deputy Secretary Carter discussed in New Delhi was further leading an effort, along with Indian counterparts in the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of External Affairs, to make our respective bureaucratic processes simpler, more responsive, and more effective to increase defense trade and cooperation.

The Deputy Secretary also met with Indian defense industry executives in Hyderabad to discuss practical next steps for streamlining bureaucratic barriers in both the U.S. and India. He toured several promising Indo-U.S. facilities co-producing transport plane and helicopter components.

Nitesh Kumar

Jharkhand has accused its parent state Bihar of keeping it into dark as it has failed to hand over the cadastral maps even though it has been more than 11 years since its formation. In absence of these maps, Jharkhand which lacks territorial knowledge of its land and villages has been unable to implement the centre’s ambitious scheme National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP).

These cadastral maps were established by the East India Company in the 19^th century to demarcate the territories so as to facilitate collection of revenue from the land lords and the kings on basis of the land they owned. The Survey of India(SoI),a Department of the British Government,established in 1767,was fully involved in the collection of these details.Following the recommendation of the 1904 Committee,the British government had empowered the respective states to conduct the cadastral surveys in their own areas of jurisdiction.

Ever since,  the hard copies of cadastral maps of 1905-06,apart from the maps prepared after completion of survey in 1934-35 and the maps made by yet another survey in 1958-61,were supposed to be preserved by the Bihar government’s body  Mudranalaya(Press) at Guljarbagh in Patna.

These cadastral maps numbering 82,119 are called by the state ,to update its land revenue records as well as implement the Centre’s ambitious Rs 125.07 crore NLRMP scheme which envisages to computerize updated land records, automated and automatic mutation, integration between textual and spatial records,inter-connectivity between revenue and registration.

CM Arjun Munda

Speaking to www.jharkhandstatenews.com a senior officer of the land revenue department says ”We are badly hit as all other works related with the land settlement and demarcation of boundaries with neighbouring states have come to a halt” . As per the Bihar Reorganisation Act,2000,”all the land and all the stores,articles and other goods belonging to the existing state of Bihar shall;If within the transferred territory,passed to the State of Jharkhand.” However, the official records obtained by us revealed that Bihar had failed to do the needful irrespective of repeated letters sent to the concerned officials.

Tired of Bihar’s inaction, Jharkhand Chief Secretary SK Choudhary has sought the Centre’s intervention. Meanwhile,  Bihar’s Principal Secretary Chandragupta Harshvardhan evaded question saying Director(Settlement and Survey)Hukum Singh Meena was dealing with the issue. When contacted,  Meena said “I have no idea.In any case,a decision in this regard has to be taken by the government.”

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“Congratulations to CII on your successes.You play a crucial role in India’s trade and foreign engagement. You help the world get to know and work with India, and vice versa. I became familiar with CII through my association with the Aspen Strategy Group’s U.S.-India Dialogue over the last 14 years, working with the great Tarun Das and Kiran Pasricha, who’ve done such exceptional things for CII and for the U.S.-India relationship.I was an early and strong supporter of the relationship also. So this is a long, long-awaited engagement, which makes it doubly wonderful to be here. I am familiar with India’s charms and culture, and the Indian people are very close to my heart.”

While addressing a session orgainsed by the CII,the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter talked about the strategic setting and said that the U.S.-India relationship is global in scope, like the reach and influence of each of our countries.

Carter said that Indo_US security interests converge across the Indian Ocean region; in Afghanistan, where India has done much for economic development and the ANSF; and on broader regional issues, where we share long-term interests, if not always common approaches, like Syria and Iran.

“I like to think of India and the United States as kindred souls. We share common values as well as common interests, and we share strong bonds in trade and technology, as well as security. President Obama has called the U.S.-India bilateral relationship one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century. And our defense cooperation, the topic of my talk, is a central part of our partnership”,said Carter.

His thought assumes significance not just because he spoke on the Indo-US relationship,but said that practical steps are need of the
hour to improve the two countries’ defense cooperation.”We want to develop a joint vision for U.S.-India defense cooperation. That’s why I’m here, at Secretary Panetta’s request. We want to get to a place where we continuously discover new opportunities to make innovative investments that benefit both countries for generations. The only limit to our cooperation should be our independent strategic decisions – as any two states may differ – not bureaucratic red tape.

The relationship has come a long way in the past decade. Our goal is to make it even stronger. We need to define where we want to go, and then make it possible to get there. We on the U.S. side have no preconceived model for this relationship or for India’s role in this region or in the world. We respect that you will follow your strategic interests. Our relationship will be a unique one, based on trust, sharing, and reliability. It will be shaped by our own strategic decisions and, I hope, by a deep strategic dialogue such as that which Secretary Panetta engaged in, when he was here in June”,Carter said. His address to the CII members and office bearers was welcomed widely as he talked about a rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Region.”Before turning to the specifics of our cooperation, I’d like to start with some strategic context – the backdrop for our cooperation”,he said.

Ashton B. Carter , U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Carter said:“The last ten years have had a profound impact on world affairs, affecting the United States but also countries across the
Asia-Pacific region and around the world. We now find ourselves at a strategic inflection point in the United States, with two forces
impinging upon us.

After a decade of conflict, one war has ended, in Iraq; the other, in Afghanistan, has not, but will transition soon to Afghan lead, thanks
to the superb efforts of the men and women in U.S. and coalition forces. We have done exceptionally well there.

But while we have been fighting insurgency and terrorism in the Middle East, the world has not stood still, our friends and enemies have not stood still, and technology has not stood still. The successes we’ve had in Afghanistan, and in counter-terrorism, mean that we can now focus our attention on other opportunities and challenges.

The time has come for us in the United States to look up, and look out, to what the world needs next, and to the security challenges that
will define our future.

We would need to make this transition no matter what, but a second force rises as well. That is the need to keep the United States’
fiscal house in order, as outlined under the Budget Control Act, passed last year by the U.S. Congress. While the U.S. base defense
budget itself will not go down under this plan, neither will it continue to rise as we had planned.

These two forces – of strategic history and fiscal responsibility – led us to design a new defense strategy for the 21st century in a
remarkable process this past winter steered by President Obama and Secretary Panetta. We are building a force for the future, what
Chairman Dempsey calls the Joint Force of 2020. As Secretary Panetta said, it will be an agile, lean, ready, technologically advanced
force, able to conduct full-spectrum operations and defeat any adversary, anywhere, anytime.

A central tenet of our new strategy is our rebalance to the  Asia-Pacific region. The rebalance is reflected in force structure
decisions we make (that is, what we keep and what we cut), in our posture and presence (that is, where we put things), in new
investments we are making in technology and weapons systems, in innovative operational plans and tactics, and in alliances and
partnerships in the region. Importantly, here in India, our rebalance extends to Southeast Asia and South Asia.

The logic of the rebalance is simple: The Asia-Pacific region has enjoyed an environment of peace and stability for more than 60 years,
allowing Japan to rise and prosper, then Korea to rise and prosper, next Southeast Asia to rise and prosper, and now China, in a very
different way than India, to rise and prosper. The wellsprings of that security have not been found within the region itself – there’s
no NATO here. In the absence of an over-arching security structure, the United States military presence has played a pivotal role in
ensuring regional stability. We intend to continue to play that role.

It is good for us, and it is good for everyone in the region. Our rebalance is not about China or the United States or India or any other single country or group of countries: It is about a peaceful Asia-Pacific region, where sovereign states can enjoy the benefits of security and continue to prosper.

In the future, our Asia-Pacific posture will increase relative to other theaters. We intend to have 60 percent of our naval assets in
the Pacific by 2020. We are developing new concepts of rotational presence, with Marines in Australia and four littoral combat ships in
Singapore as well as forward stationing in Guam. We are investing in new platforms and technologies relevant to the region, like the new bomber, new submarine-launched conventional weapons, cyber capabilities, and a host of upgrades in radars, electronic protection, space, and electronic warfare. These and other future-focused investments are another central tenet of our strategy.

Ashton B. Carter

To those who doubt we have the resources to accomplish all this, I would, to the contrary, point out two factors that make it eminently
possible. First, with Iraq behind us and Afghanistan slated to wind down, capacity will be released that can be allocated to the
Asia-Pacific region. Second, within our budget we can and are prioritizing investments relevant to the Asia-Pacific theater rather
than, for example, counterinsurgency where we have put so much effort over the last decade. So the rebalancing is entirely practical.

Finally, central in our new strategy, as in our decades-long historical commitment to the region, we seek to build partnerships
that leverage the unique strengths of our Allies and partners – to confront critical challenges, and meet emerging opportunities. So we
are taking a strategic and comprehensive approach to security cooperation. And as I will describe in greater detail, we are
streamlining our internal processes and security cooperation programs to share and cooperate with our partners better.

Our partnership with India is a key part of our rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, and, we believe, to the broader security and prosperity of the 21st century. You are an economic power with an increasing military capability; and your leadership in civil discourse and democracy is critical to the political stability of South Asia.

Our military-to-military engagement has increased steadily over the years, to include a robust set of dialogues, exercises, defense trade, and research cooperation.

Our shared challenge in the next era is to find concrete areas to step up our defense cooperation, so that only our imagination and strategic logic, and not administrative barriers, set the pace. That’s why I came with a team of officials who are responsible to Secretary Panetta and me for executing this vision. We need to reinvigorate and commit to maintain a robust set of linkages and working groups that will work every day to enable our cooperation and develop mutual beneficial policies for the future.

We want to knock down any remaining bureaucratic barriers in our defense relationship, and strip away the impediments. And we want to set big goals to achieve.

Today, I want to outline some of the steps the U.S. is taking in this direction, and if I may, some areas where we hope India will improve too.

As a country committed to enduring peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region, India deserves the best military equipment
available. And we are prepared to help. Practically, we want to be India’s highest-quality and most trusted long-term supplier of
technology, in such fields as maritime domain awareness, counter-terrorism, and many others. We are committed to India’s
military modernization. India is a top priority in our export considerations. We trust India and know India is not a re-exporter or
exploiter of our technologies.

We have an export control system to prevent high-end technology from getting to states that shouldn’t have it, but our system can be
confusing, rigid, and controls too many items for the wrong reasons.
We know we need to improve it. We are improving our government’s overall export control system under President Obama’s 2010 Export Control Reform initiative.

But at the same time, Secretary Panetta and I are committed to reforming the Department of Defense’s internal processes. India has
been very frank in expressing its concerns with U.S. export controls and technology security policies. We are taking real steps to address India’s concerns.

For example, we moved DRDO and ISRO off the Commerce Department Entity List. We can conduct research and co-develop technologies together –like batteries, and micro-UAVs – good initial steps, with much more to come. And an overwhelming and increasing majority of munitions license requests have been approved quickly under direct commercial sales, and this will continue.

In addition to increasing sheer bureaucratic speed, we are being more strategic about export decisions. We are making decisions more
anticipatory, looking at what partners are likely to want in the future, and beginning our thinking earlier. In a great new
initiative, we are building exportability into our systems from the start so it doesn’t consume time and money to do it later. Next, we
are putting priority sales on a special fast track. All these steps should be felt here in New Delhi. The combination of these and other
efforts will help us respond more rapidly to India’s requests for U.S.  equipment and systems – particularly for more advanced  echnologies.

At the same time, we want to maintain confidence that our technologies will be protected. India is concerned about protecting technology too – we know that. We have a U.S.-India Senior Technology Security Group to address the genuine security issues that exist in our world, but it needs to be more active.

Secondly, I want to report to you that we in the U.S. are taking steps to improve our Foreign Military Sales system, or FMS, also. This is
in both of our countries’ interests. India was our second largest FMS customer in 2011, with $4.5 billion in total FMS sales. And we
delivered six C-130Js on time. We think our defense technology is the best quality on the market. Some partners choose price over value.

Buying American, whether through Direct Commercial Sales or Foreign Military Sales, will get India exceptionally high-quality technology, a high degree of transparency, and no corruption (this is mandated by our legal system).

Sometimes it appears that India favors DCS, and this is fine, but might overlook some advantages of FMS. A government-to-government agreement through Foreign Military Sales offers competitive pricing, only slightly more than DCS. These costs go to DoD, which affords protections you cannot get from industry alone and addresses sustainment needs over the long-term. As I said many times when I was acquisition executive of DoD, lifecycle costs are frequently hidden and ignored in acquisition decisions.

To sum up on FMS, we are making our Foreign Military Sales system as easy to work with as possible. But for each sale, India should choose which route is in its interests, commercial or governmental. We will continue to work to improve both. Next, and importantly, we are prepared to adapt our system to the unique needs of India and its Defence Procurement Procedure, or DPP.

We aim to clarify our acquisition system, which isn’t always easy to interpret. I used to be the Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. There was a chart on my wall, outlining the 250 steps it takes to move a program from development to delivery. It read like hieroglyphics. One of my team decided that a wallet sized card would make it easier to read.

We are making our acquisition process more export-friendly. We have a new fund that allows us to procure long-lead, high demand items so we will have them on hand in anticipation of partner requests. We now have a cadre of acquisition experts to send to other countries to define their requests for sales and streamline our response. They should help India significantly.

Finally, and most importantly, we want to move beyond defense trade and towards cooperative research and development and co-production with India. I’m a scientist, and I know this is a critical part. I am going to Hyderabad tomorrow, where Tata Advanced Systems Limited and Lockheed will begin producing parts for the C-130J. From now on, every C-130J around the world will contain parts made in Hyderabad.

This is a great first step for co-production. It highlights what can be achieved when we unleash the potential of our private industries.
This is just the beginning. Our horizons can and should expand further. The question is: Where does India want to expand and grow?

Indian bureaucracies, like ours, are adapting for the future. Our bureaucracies, however, were built during the Cold War. More
recently, India introduced the Defense Procurement Procedure, which is designed to protect against corruption, by reducing prices and complexity reflecting this legacy. Now, however, a higher-end technology India seeks to develop a higher-end defense industry.

Likewise, in the Cold War, the U.S. bureaucracy was designed to protect a wide swath of technology. With the commercialization of the
global marketplace, we now recognize that defense technology controls should be more focused. We want to cooperate with you on high-value technologies.

To get to where we both want to be, India can make changes too, to increase U.S. investment. If India raises its Foreign Direct
Investment ceiling to international standards, it would increase commercial incentives to invest.

Second, offsets can be tremendously helpful to growing industry capabilities – if you have the right companies, and the right
absorptive capacity. If offsets are calibrated correctly, it works.  But if offset requirements are too onerous or too narrow, they deter a
company’s interest. For companies to participate, our arrangements must make good economic sense as well as good strategic sense.

Those are just two points where change could be a real help to Indian-American defense cooperation.”

Conclusion

The point is that on both sides we need to change, reform, and push ourselves to get to a place where U.S.-India defense relations are
limited only by our thinking, not our capacity to cooperate. That’s what Secretary Panetta and National Security Advisor Menon charged when they met in June.

I’m looking forward to visiting India’s Technology Corridor tomorrow. There we will all be reminded of what is happening in the overall world of technology and industry. There, cooperation is the norm. The leaders of industry globally, such as those in this room, know it.
Sometimes, we in the security community lag behind them in our ability to cooperate and advance technology. But the wisest of our industrial leaders, including CII, also understand that without security, none of the other good things in life are possible – family, prosperity, progress, let alone business.

So in gatherings like this, and in practical ways like those I have come to India to advance, they help show us the way. For that,
Secretary Panetta and I are grateful. Thank you very much.

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