functional project managers VS technical project managers, do we have space for functional PM in India?

When compared to the Information Technology (IT) trend that was existing 15 years before, we were creating purely technical managers. Reason, popularity of IT as a separate technology was just growing say from the year 1985 onwards for a decade. During this period one would have noticed that a civil engineer by profession was also in IT in some area working on a IT technical job and finally reaching to a technical manager or so. Ultimately the civil engineer did not function where his functional involvement has to be. Probably he might have been an expert in the functional aspect in his field. Still there was no proper application that allowed him to see the functionality and technicality separately.

But now, situation is entirely different due to systematic changes that occured in the field of manufacturing and technology. One has to be more responsible towards Functional Processes than merely looking in to the technical process. Say, for a product development, in current suituations you definetly need a separate functional manager to concentrate on functional aspect of a product design if that product had to come up well. Thus, technical managers can just concentrate on techicalities of the product / system. Thereby the quality of the product / system will drastically improve. Functional PM is needed to demarcate the functionality of the system that is being designed or manufactured. In the absence of Functional PM, the Technical PM will be expected with more knowledge and responsiblity and will be loaded with too many activities such that the quality of the product / system will definetly need an attention.