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by one trillion dollars. We need to make the most of every opportunity
that comes our way.
India spends the most on arms imports for the country’s security. It
spends more on arms imports than fuel oil. Through Make in India and
Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, India is trying to make all the weapons
we need in India. Apart from this, Pinnakin, a multi-barrel launcher
developed by Indian scientists, destroyers and nuclear submarines,
conventional missiles like Prithvi, Agni, Nag, Akash, Trishul. Cruise
missiles like Brahmos, state-of-the-art fighter jets like Tejas are in high
demand worldwide. Therefore, India is moving from the role of arms
importer to the role of arms exporter. If India succeeds in this endevour,
it is projected that India’s economy will grow by at least one trillion dollars
in the next five years.

Environmental supplementary energy generation

At the recent World Summit in Glasgow, India promised the world
that it would establish carbon neutrality by 2070. This means that India
will make arrangements to absorb as much carbon as it emits. For this,
India will have to come up with a plan to minimize the use of carbon
fuels like petrol-diesel and increase the absorption of carbon generated
by increasing the forest area. India will have to turn to alternative energy
sources such as solar energy, wind energy, hydro energy, tidal energy,
nuclear energy, geothermal energy etc. For this, a more planned system of
energy generation has to be set up. There are more than 5,000 uninhabited
islands off the coast of India. It is possible to set up energy generating
systems in all of the above ways on these islands. According to a rough
estimate, the total energy generated on these 5,000 islands alone could
meet India’s needs for the next fifty years(H.J.Arnikar,1995).
An unprecedented plan suggested by India in Glasgow has been
accepted worldwide. The plan is ‘One Sun, One World, One Grid’. The
plan is to set up a comprehensive system for generating energy from solar
power, in all the countries of the world and connect all these systems to
the collective grid. In some parts of the world, the sun is always present.
Therefore, a large amount of energy can be generated there and in areas
where it is night or where energy cannot be generated due to fog and rain,
the excess energy can be distributed there. Solar energy can be generated
mainly between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, as there
is not enough energy in the sun’s rays outside this region. But the energy

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