Brilliant breakdown @rahulporuri!
Monthly stipend of researchers in India is a valid point and I’m surprised that there is no mention of it in the policy.
Apart from the above-mentioned points, I feel that the policy gave less emphasis on the private sector and industry contribution to science and deep tech. There is a lot of governmentality with respect to creating the initial market through the public procurement route, providing seed funds through schemes like iDEX etc. But given the multiple pulls on the Indian government budget, increasing the size of Science will become a last priority on a rainy day.
Moreover, there has to be foresight in the identification of DeepTech sectors. We cannot bandwagon with the world and now focus on the technologies that are on the headlines. These technologies are on the headlines because people had been working on them for about a decade. Prof CNR Rao mentioned more than a decade ago why India should focus on nanotechnology but we have missed that bus as well. So a strategic effort on technologies that would matter after a decade or so will have to be identified and worked upon. The current definition of Deeptech startups would allow most startups that just mimic technologies being developed across the world for the Indian market.