the tech industry requires a talented and skilled workforce the government may provide funding for programmes to modernise educational buildings with stateoftheart rd capabilitiesvipul singh ceo and cofounder aereoover the past year the indian drone manufacturing industry has flourished due to various policy reforms and schemes like the inr 120 crore pli scheme for drones and drone components this year we expect dedicated incentives for drone service startups for b2b drone operations to reach their maximum potential in 2023 restructuring the pli scheme is the need of the hour the 2023 union budget must introduce msmefocussed incentives as they constitute around 90 of companies in this sector apart from drone manufacturing benefits to the drone services sector are necessary for the success of droneasaservice draas under drone shakti incentivizing the drone service sector impacts highskilled employment in the country we are seeing surging demand for drone services in the country thus we need a technically proficient workforce to fulfil this demand additionally with this years budget we are expecting benefits towards indigenization and native rd this is of paramount importance to reduce our dependency on foreign oems an additional 10 pli benefit for companies with more than 50 indigenous intellectual property will encourage the innovative companies to innovate more and oems to indigenize further to reduce the dependency on imports it will help propel makeinindia and put the indian drone industry on a selfsustaining trajectorykuldeep malhotra deputy md konica minolta business solutions indiathe union government is continuously working and finding solutions to achieve its 2070 sustainability target keeping the same in view we hope that in the upcoming budget the government will introduce better and more attractive incentives aimed at promoting the green economy besides this we expect that government interventions and policy changes like tax rebates for meeting set environmental standards certifications green taxes on harmful environmental activities and subsidies on the use of green products can go a long way in furthering the agenda of sustainabilityvikas bajaj president aifi association of indian forging industryall msmes including the forging industry are expecting a good progressive and balanced budget this year the industry also monitors significant announcements from this budget to promote investment in this space as well as favourable regulatory actions to provide a suitable climate for manufacturing sector additionally steel import duties should be reduced to compensate for the existing deficit and uncompetitive indian steel pricing furthermore the government should prioritise regulating inflation and reducing the cost of raw materials and fuel existing incentives must be enhanced to boost exports there is also a need to expedite the gst refund system to give liquidity to the industries as part of the make in india initiative indian companies should be eligible for a duty structure benefit the government has made continued efforts to simplify and streamline indian tax regulations and the industry anticipates consistency in tax and regulatory policies as well as their interpretation this year i believe that the government should fix industry income rates for at least