The Shakti turboshaft is a JV engine between France and India, anyways designing ones own platform gives one the liberty to design the product as per their own operational requirement. An effort applied never goes in vain, infact bear fruit in the long run.I heard that indigenous helicopter is also the same, assembled with mostly foreign parts. If my memory serves me correctly, it's called HAL Dhruv?
Unfortunately China's indigenous civil passenger jet is undergoing the same problem, almost everything is imported. No major sub-system is from a domestic supplier. China currently just builds the shell, everything else inside are foreign. Hopefully the percentage of domestic parts increase.