The proposal will now be placed for consideration of Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) on Wednesday finalised the contractual and other issues for procurement of 83 of Tejas aircraft's advanced Mk1A version for the Indian Air Force (IAF) from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
The proposal will now be placed for consideration of Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS).
This procurement will be a major boost to 'Make in India' as the aircraft is indigenously designed, developed and manufactured with the participation of several local vendors apart from HAL, the government said in a statement.
Orders of 40 Tejas aircraft's earlier model have already been placed with the HAL.
The Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, indigenously-designed by Aircraft Development Agency (ADA) under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and manufactured by HAL, is going to be the backbone of Indian Air Force in future, the government said.
The DAC also approved the acquisition of indigenous defence equipment worth Rs Rs 1,300 crore. The proposals were for procurement of Aerial Fuses and Twin-Dome Simulators for Hawk Mk32 aircraft for the Indian Air Force.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
This is the first time that the meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) was held with the Acquisition Wing being the Secretariat of the DAC. This has been done after the separation of duties between the Department of Defence (DoD) and the Department of Military Affairs (DMA). This would lead to better coordination and faster processing of cases with the Acquisition wing being in the overall charge of the Capital acquisition process, the ministry said.
The ministry statement said that the DAC also approved an amendment to the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 to enable review by a Costing Committee of bids submitted by Joint Ventures of Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs)/Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)/DRDO from whom procurement of Defence items is undertaken on a nomination basis.
This will bring about more transparency in costs and compress the timelines for negotiation of the contract, the Ministry of Defence said.
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