State-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Thursday said its order book is expected to cross Rs one trillion-mark in the next year. The order book was about Rs 53,000 crore, if you add Tejas (LCA) to it, it will cross Rs 80,000 crore, so that is the order book as of now, and we are expecting two more orders that is basically for LCH and HTT-40, coming up for the next year, HAL CMD R Madhavan said. Speaking to reporters here at the Aero India 2021, he said: We will be reaching Rs one lakh crore (Rs one trillion) plus probably by next year end..this year is quite comfortable for us, he added.
The Deadly Alphabet Soup That Is India s Defence Acquisition Procedure
Service officers and defence ministry officials concede that the âalphabetic morse codeâ that comprises communications with vendors pose a âformidable comprehensibleâ challenge even to themselves.
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Security19/Jan/2021
Every day we are assaulted by a miasma of bewildering acronyms and abbreviations in official documents, newspapers and on television, all guaranteed to drown millions of us in thick alphabet soup.
But this confusion is possibly paramount in Indiaâs defence acquisition procedure, that remains a deadly cocktail of abridged and shortened terms that even its originators, at times, find difficult to comprehend or unravel. Service officers and Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials concede that the âalphabetic morse codeâ that comprises almost all their internal communi