India initiates steps to develop first homegrown civil plane

New Delhi: India has initiated steps to build its first indigenous civilian transport aircraft under a public-private partnership project that will be undertaken in a national mission mode.
Government has set up a 15-member high-power committee (HPC) on National Civil Aircraft Development with former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair as its Chairman for management and development of the key project.
The first meeting of the core team of the committee comprising technologists is scheduled to be held tomorrow at the National Aerspace Laboratory (NAL) in Bangalore to chart out a broad vision for the project, officials said.
The HPC will carry out a feasibility study for the project to be set up as a public-private partnership that is expected to evolve eventually into a new entity for development of a national civil transport aircraft and provide a basis for civil aircraft industry in the country.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-NAL will assist the HPC in implementation of the project.
The Design Centre will be set up by drawing manpower from CSIR-NAL, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Aeronautic Development Authority, Defence Research and Development Organisation and Indian Space Research Organisation.
07/05/10 PTI/Economic Times

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