The last few months have been tense for the world and especially India due to the recent pandemic, Covid-19 or the Corona virus. Adding to this, the clash between the Indian Army and People’s Liberation Army of China in the border of Ladakh valley has created more difficulty for the Indian government.
With diplomatic talks on the table, the officials are trying to resolve the matter peacefully but the meetings are bearing no fruit till the date.
The Swadeshi Jagran Manch, affiliate of Rastriya Swayamsewak Sangh has urged the government to ban Chinese firms from the tender process. This is the first step which will help the government from draining Indian currency to China as well as a step at the macro level. Recently, the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System tender was awarded to the Chinese firm, Sanghai Tunnel Engineering Company.
There were Indian bidders too but the tender was awarded to the Chinese company. Also, in this year only the Chinese company Great Wall signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maharashtra government and aims to infuse Rs 7,600 crores through a plant for producing UV and SUV cars.
Recently, educator Simon Wangchuk urged people to fight against the Chinese government through their wallets by uninstalling all the Chinese applications or software installed in their phones. In the next one year, the rule of Chinese hardware should be minimised as far as possible. But it must be known that Indian applications such as Oyo, PayTM and many others whose founders are Indians are receiving funding from the Chinese companies. Out of the total smart phones market in India 72 percent is with China.
Uninstalling applications from mobile phones will minimize the funds for China, but that will be just the tip of the iceberg. There has to be substitutes to Chinese products in India which are currently missing. The infrastructural and research and development backwardness in India has to be plugged; development has to be initiated and this is not an overnight process.