Indigenous industries huge role in making robust economy: President

President Droupadi Murmu said on Friday that the indigenous industries have a huge role in building a self-reliant, competitive and robust economy. She said the government has taken several policy initiatives in the last few years and brought in reforms to encourage indigenous design, development and manufacturing of defence equipment. The president was addressing the officers of the Indian Ordnance Factories Service and probationers of the Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS), who had called on her at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.