With just five days to go for the end of the lockdown period, different complexes of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) returned to work on Tuesday morning.
The move comes after the Ministry of Home Affairs declared the company an essential service.
In a letter to the Ministry of Defence on April 26, Ashish Kumar Singh, undersecretary, disaster management division in the Ministry of Home Affairs, forwarded the Indian Air Force’s request to exempt the company as an “office of defence”.
“…it is clarified that since Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is stated to be providing essential support service to the IAF for maintaining operational preparedness, it can be treated at par with Defence (para 18 (i) of revised consolidated guidelines issued by the MHA),” the letter read.
