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Level playing field missing in India, says L&T Shipbuilding MD & CEO

'Make in India' should not be just a slogan but also practiced in essence, says B Kannan

Level playing field missing in India, says L&T Shipbuilding MD & CEO
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T E Narasimhan Chennai
L&T Shipbuilding, part of the engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T), has said its facility, as also those of other private shipyards, is running at a low capacity in the absence of a level playing field.

The company has invested around Rs 40 billion so far to set up a facility at Katuppali, near Chennai, which is capable of manufacturing 10 ships but it making only two at present.

“...not only us, the private sector utilisation (capacity) is only 20-25 per cent, since we are over-feeding the public sector,” B Kannan, managing director and chief executive, L&T Shipbuilding Ltd told