Technology Gaps in India’s Air-Conditioning Supply Chain - Enhancing Jobs, Growth, and Sustainability

In this sense, the report provides the argument and basis to set the agenda for working on technology bottlenecks in India to improve and develop the domestic value chain in the cooling sector. [...] Thus, embedded in the larger discourses about the Indian economy, levels of industrialisation, and the need to become self-sufficient (aatmanirbhar), this report seeks to explore the challenges faced by the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning sector in India. [...] In this sense, the report provides the argument and basis to set the agenda for working on technology bottlenecks in India to improve and develop the domestic value chain in the cooling sector. [...] 1.1 Manufacturing in India and global value chains The Indian manufacturing sector is one of the three pillars of the economy, the other two being the agrarian and services sectors. [...] One of the manifestations of this is that it has given rise to the phenomenon of large technology diffusion companies operating at scale, specialising in one or several areas of the manufacturing and adoption 5 India is the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in the world, fulfilling 50 per cent of global vaccine demand and 25 percent of all medicines in the United Kingdom.