Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today batted for making India a defence manufacturing hub and said, it is essential to deal with various security challenges like insurgency effectively.<br/> <br/>Speaking at the 9th convocation of the Defence Institute of Advance Technology in Pune, he said, no country can secure itself by depending on others for its defence supplies. Mr. Jaitley said, our neighbourhood has thrown up security challenges and we are facing insurgency and war for the last 70 years. Therefore, India needs to become an important defence manufacturing hub. The Minister said, the country has institutions like IITs, DRDO labs and a large number of private institutes which can help it achieve the goal.<br/> <br/>Inaugurating Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) to test indigeneously developed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) by Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) in Chitradurga city in Karnataka, Mr Jaitley said, Government is working on a policy where locally developed technology will be given a helping hand.