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India Okays Defence Deals Worth 170 Billion Rupees

: Sep 4, 2014 - : 8:51 am

The new India government has made its first big decisions on equipping the forces, clearing acquisitions and renewing contracts worth 170 billion rupees. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), met under the chairmanshiop Of Defence Minister Arun Jaitley last week in New Delhi to clear the purchases, emphatically favoured manufacturing in India. In a major decision, the DAC scrapped the long delayed 197 light utility helicopters (LuH) project, stating the the local companies, with the help of foreign companies can manufacture these helicopter under the "Buy & Make (Indian)" story_category. This requires Indian companies to build the LuH in India, in collaboration, if necessary, with foreign partners. "In accordance with the government's policy, this will create manufacturing jobs, benefiting Indian industry to the tune of 400 billion rupees", said an official. Immediately benefiting from this decision will be public sector aerospace behemoth, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), which has worked for four years on developing an indigenous LuH. In 2010, the ministry of defence (MoD) had split the military's requirement of 384 LuHs into two - with 197 being procured over-the-counter (now cancelled); and HAL assured an order for 187 helicopters, provided this was developed by 2017. "We appreciate this decision by the government. It is an important step towards indigenising aerospace capabilities," says RK Tyagi, the HAL chief. The DAC also has cleared the last hurdle for signing of the contract with the U.S. in respect of Apache attach helicopters and Chinook heavy lifts rotorcraft. Under a $2.5bn deal, U.S. defence contractor Boeing will supply 15 CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopters and 22 AH-64D attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

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