New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Citing the example of the Chinese company Huawei, Indian author Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founding members of Hindustan Computers Limited, on Wednesday stressed that "demand aggregation" should be the strategy the Indian government implements to develop strong, globally competitive Indian tech and manufacturing companies.

Speaking to ANI in an interview, Chowdhry stressed that the Chinese government awarded all its domestic telecom business to Huawei, which gave the company a guaranteed foothold, a factor that helped drive its global scale.

"Demand aggregation. What I suggest is that we should aggregate all the government demand and give it to Indian companies. You may decide to give 50 per cent or 75 per cent....