No country, particularly the industrialized ones, has achieved that status without making their artisans as an important part of the process and making their rural industries as the base for modern industrialization. Modern industrialization is phenomenon of development and application of science and technology in production. Science and technology develops in research institutions and universities by scientists and academicians.
However the application of the same happens in industry through the practitioners who are none other than the artisans and the technicians coming from the traditional sector. There has to be a proper synergy and complementariness of the two. This is really missing in India. There is a huge scope to bring that in through start-ups and entrepreneurship. The power loom sector, the automobile sector, the repair and maintenance sector and in fact the “Jugaads” technologies seen all-around are demonstrative of what this kind of interphase can do in the industrial sector. It needs to be carried out in a more formal and organized way in order to bring out the best of the both, the modern sector as well as the traditional sector.