Deal done: Government formally seals Rs 48,000 crore pact to procure 83 Tejas LCA from HAL
By
Biju Kumar
BENGALURU: The government on Wednesday formally sealedthe Rs 48,000 crore deal to procure 83 Tejas light combat aircraft from state-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
The contract was handed over by Director General (Acquisition), Ministry of Defence, V L Kantha Rao to Chairman and Managing Director of HAL, R Madhavan, at the inaugural ceremony of Aero India-2021, the country’s premier defence and aerospace show, here, in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.








