**Executive Summary**
On 17 December 2025, the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), in collaboration with IP Bazzaar, hosted a roundtable discussion on critical minerals and their strategic importance for India's defence preparedness and Viksit Bharat 2047. Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit highlighted the necessity of assured access to these minerals for modern defence systems, emphasizing self-reliance in defence manufacturing aligned with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047. The event involved discussions on India's strategic approach to critical minerals and included the inauguration of 30 technical reports.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Strategic Importance of Critical Minerals:**
* Critical minerals are crucial for national security, defence capability development, and technological sovereignty.
* Modern defence systems like jet engines, missiles, radars, satellites, batteries, and semiconductors rely on these minerals.
* **Global Supply Chain Concerns:**
* Global supply chains for critical minerals are highly concentrated and subject to export controls and geopolitical pressures.
* Excessive import dependence creates strategic vulnerability.
* **India's Initiatives:**
* Identification of critical minerals.
* Establishment of the National Critical Mineral Mission.
* Enhancing the value chain from extraction to processing, manufacturing, and recycling.
* **Roundtable Discussion Details:**
* Hosted by CENJOWS in collaboration with IP Bazzaar.
* Focused on "Minerals That Matter: Geopolitics, Sovereignty & Value Chains."
* Convened policymakers, defence experts, industry leaders, and IP professionals.
* Included inauguration of 30 technical reports on critical minerals.
**Impact Analysis**
**Policymakers, Defence Experts, Industry Leaders, IP Professionals**
* **Impact:** Increased awareness of the strategic importance of critical minerals for India's defence and development goals.
* **Action Required:** Contribute to formulating and implementing strategies to secure access to critical minerals and promote self-reliance in defence manufacturing.
**Government of India**
* **Impact:** Reinforcement of the importance of initiatives like the National Critical Mineral Mission and enhancing the value chain for critical minerals.
* **Action Required:** Continue to support and promote initiatives to identify, secure, and develop critical mineral resources for national security and economic growth.
Key Entities Referenced
Viksit Bharat 2047: India's vision for a developed nation by 2047, emphasizing self-reliance in defence and other sectors.
National Critical Mineral Mission: India's initiative for the identification and development of critical minerals.
Ministry of Defence: The Indian government ministry responsible for defence preparedness.
CISC: Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee
Aatmanirbhar Bharat: Self-Reliant India policy
Ministry of Defence
CISC underscores strategic importance of critical
minerals for defence preparedness and Viksit
Bharat 2047
प्रव तथ: 23 DEC 2025 11:37AM by PIB Delhi
The Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), in collaboration with IP Bazzaar, hosted Tech Talk, a
high-level, closed-door roundtable discussion on the theme “Minerals That Matter: Geopolitics,
Sovereignty & Value Chains” on 17 December 2025 in New Delhi. In his keynote address, Air Marshal
Ashutosh Dixit, Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC)
highlighted that critical minerals have emerged as a strategic enabler for national security, defence
capability development, and technological sovereignty. He noted that modern defence systems including
jet engines, missiles, precision munitions, radars, satellites, batteries, and semiconductors are intrinsically
dependent on assured access to these minerals.
Air Marshal Dixit emphasised that global supply chains for critical minerals are highly concentrated and
increasingly subject to export controls and geopolitical pressures, making excessive import dependence a
strategic vulnerability. He observed that self-reliant defence manufacturing and operational readiness are
inseparable from secure and resilient mineral supply chains, aligned with India’s vision of Viksit Bharat
2047 and Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
Addressing recent national efforts, the Air Marshal drew attention to India’s initiatives such as the
identification of critical minerals, the establishment of the National Critical Mineral Mission, and the
government’s push to enhance the entire value chain - from extraction to processing, manufacturing, and
recycling. These efforts, he noted, are crucial for translating India’s policy intentions into concrete
outcomes. As part of the event, he also inaugurated a collection of 30 technical reports on critical
minerals, showcasing in-depth IP landscape studies and market analyses.
The invitation-only forum convened senior policymakers, defence experts, industry leaders, technology
innovators, academia, and intellectual property (IP) professionals to explore India’s strategic approach to
critical minerals in the context of a rapidly evolving global environment. The event received the gracious
best wishes of Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Minister of Coal and Mines, Government of India.
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