Licence to Lag: The Draft Engineers Bill and Innovation Risk

Why AICTE’s draft Professional Engineer’s Bill is a step backward for Viksit Bharat 2047’s vision on indigenous technology and innovation? The Bill is nothing but an attempt to chain the individual engineers both literally and metaphorically to slow down the progressive innovation and engineering experimentation and advancing indigenous innovation as envisioned in 2047 Viksit Bharat vision. AICTE’s draft Professional Engineers Bill 2025 risks slowing India’s push for indigenous technology and innovation by centralising control, increasing compliance costs, and creating jurisdictional uncertainty that can deter…