Pillar maps
Each strategic industry as one connected system — its value-chain streams, the chokepoints inside them, who controls each layer, and how the pillars link to one another.
Semiconductors
India is funding the fab, but roughly 65% of the value chain — the eight upstream streams and their chokepoints — is still imported.
Critical Minerals
India can mine, but the refining and magnet-making layer that turns ore into usable material is controlled abroad, mostly by China.
AI Infrastructure
India is building data centres at scale, yet the compute, memory and silicon inside them are almost entirely imported.
Defence
India integrates world-class platforms on a subsystem base — engines, seekers, RF electronics — it does not yet own.
Enterprise Software
The software stack running Indian industry — ERP, cloud and databases — is overwhelmingly foreign-owned, layer by layer.
AI MedTech
India has world-class medical-AI software, but every X-ray tube, detector, image sensor and GPU that produces the data it reads is imported.
Unmanned Systems
India flies and assembles more drones than it builds — the components still come from abroad.
Counter-UAS
India’s counter-drone shield — who detects, tracks and defeats the drone threat.
Military Aerospace
India assembles transport aircraft it does not design — the engines, avionics and actuators still come from abroad.
Space
India is moving from government missions to a private full-stack space economy — launch, satellites, propulsion and data still lean on imported components.