Govt scouting for pvt partners for plane project

New Delhi: Government today said it was scouting private partners to fulfil its ambitious plans to design and develop an indigenous medium-range civilian transport aircraft.
Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said the government had already set up a 15-member high-power committee headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair to prepare a feasibility report on development of the 80-100 seater aircraft.
The National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL), a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) institute, has been tasked to lead the national effort to develop the civilian aircraft.
There have been a couple of attempts to develop a regional transport aircraft earlier, but officials claim that this time round the project has been taken up on mission mode.
The NAL will be the main agency to implement the project in association with state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The design centre for the regional civilian aircraft project will be set up in Bangalore under the supervision of NAL and private partners will be involved right from the design stage, CSIR Director General Samir Kumar Brahmachari had said.
11/05/10 PTI/Zee News

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