Panaji: The production of the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft was delayed for “eight to 10 years” because of shoddy coordination by the Defence Ministry agencies involved and lack of required support, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Friday.
Parrikar, who was speaking at a function in Margao town, 35 km from Panaji, also said that 55 per cent of the equipment used in the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft was indigenously manufactured.
“In 2001, when Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, the plane (Tejas) took its maiden flight and by 2006-07 it should have been inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF). No one paid attention to it for eight to 10 years,” Parrikar said, blaming the Aeronautical Development Agency, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and the Indian Air Force for lack of coordination.
"This plane was not getting the required support,” he said.
Parrikar said it took more than a dozen sittings with representatives of the three agencies to overcome obstacles and get the manufacturing back on track, which eventually led to two planes being inducted into the IAF on July 1.
There are many more coming through over the next two years, the Defence Minister said.
08/07/16 Indileak
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Parrikar, who was speaking at a function in Margao town, 35 km from Panaji, also said that 55 per cent of the equipment used in the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft was indigenously manufactured.
“In 2001, when Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, the plane (Tejas) took its maiden flight and by 2006-07 it should have been inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF). No one paid attention to it for eight to 10 years,” Parrikar said, blaming the Aeronautical Development Agency, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and the Indian Air Force for lack of coordination.
"This plane was not getting the required support,” he said.
Parrikar said it took more than a dozen sittings with representatives of the three agencies to overcome obstacles and get the manufacturing back on track, which eventually led to two planes being inducted into the IAF on July 1.
There are many more coming through over the next two years, the Defence Minister said.
08/07/16 Indileak
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