NAL to invite pvt firms to design RTA

Hyderabad: The Bangalore-based National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), the nodal centre for the design of the Regional Transport Aircraft (RTA), would invite potential partners from the private sector, both from India and abroad, said A R Upadhya, director (council of scientific and industrial research), NAL.
“The Centre has given us a directive to design a framework to form a joint venture (JV) for carrying out the RTA project through a public-private partnership mode. We have already drafted an EoI (expressions of interest), which will be issued in a month’s time. The JV will be for design, development and manufacturing of the RTAs. It (JV) could be two separate entities, too. Roping in cost-sharing partners within a segment or a particular activity ... that has to be looked at,” Upadhya said.
An RTA is meant to boost connectivity between smaller towns and cities. It is said to be more suitable for a place like India, where within a radius of 300-400 km of a big city, you have another one.
Speaking to Business Standard on the sidelines of the Aviation Conclave 2010, which concluded here on Saturday, he said the government had given NAL the mandate to do a one-year feasibility study on the configuration definition and systems definition for RTA.
21/11/10 K Rajani Kanth/Business Standard

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