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Murmu Hails Operation Sindoor, Credits Indigenous Akashteer and PSUs at SCOPE Awards

She used the awards stage to link PSU performance to India’s push for technological self-reliance.

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Overview

  • President Droupadi Murmu called Operation Sindoor a “golden chapter” that destroyed terrorist camps and foiled attempts to attack India.
  • She said the indigenous Akashteer air defence control and reporting system showed “infallible capability” during the operation and credited PSUs with helping build it.
  • Murmu portrayed public sector enterprises as catalysts of growth, citing improved finances with three-fourths of PSUs now profit-making and sharply higher net profits over the past decade.
  • She emphasized CPSEs’ contributions to Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat and said they will be pivotal to achieving a developed India by 2047.
  • The President presented the 2022–23 SCOPE Eminence Awards in New Delhi, including an honor for A. Manimekhalai, former MD and CEO of Union Bank of India.