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Make-in-India for defence is gathering pace. In the pipeline after 83 LCA Tejas, is the first private sector aircraft manufacturing contract when the Airbus-TATA joint venture to make 56C-295 aircraft; An Indian company incubated by IIT, Bombay has also got orders for drones
The trend is reflected in the acceptance of necessity (AoN) granted in 2020 by the DAC. 33 out of 38 cases are under Make category. Within this, most cases (31) are for Buy IDDM indicating that all these AoNs are for products to be designed and developed in India.
The combined value for IDDM category would come to Rs 64.8 K crores when these AoNs are converted into orders. By comparison, AONs worth only Rs 9.8K crores have been granted for platforms that will be imported. The challenge is to convert AONs into contracts in reasonable time
The journey that started with Manohar Parrikar as Defence Minister from November 2014, got carried forward by Nirmala Sitharaman and in the current government by Raksha Mantri @rajnathsingh who has steered the MoD since June 2019. The focus is now on maximising átmanirbharta.
