{"id":358867,"date":"2020-06-23T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T11:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358867"},"modified":"2020-06-23T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:06:53","slug":"lt-committed-to-reduce-dependency-on-products-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lt-committed-to-reduce-dependency-on-products-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"L&amp;T committed to reduce dependency on products from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larsen &amp; Toubro on Tuesday said it is committed to reduce dependence on imported products from China and achieve self-reliance for domestic industry to support &#8216;Atma Nirbhar Bharat&#8217; initiative.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 20 Indian Army personnel were killed in a brutal assault by the Chinese military in Galwan last week which escalated the border tension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Larsen &amp; Toubro, India&#8217;s leading multinational engineering, construction, technology, and financial services conglomerate is committed to achieving self-reliance for the domestic industry by creating a strong and feasible \u2018Make in India&#8217; ecosystem,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>L&amp;T takes pride on being at the forefront of creating projects and products, some of the largest, biggest, and longest in the world \u2013 all made in India, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith an unfortunate incident involving our brave soldiers at our border, sentiments are running high in the country. As a company involved in nation-building for more than eight decades, we firmly stand with the policy of manufacturing best-in-class products locally through \u2018Make in India&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026The atmosphere is right for that and we should accelerate this. We are fully supportive of the Government of India&#8217;s initiatives and will do our best to contribute to Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan,\u201d L&amp;T CEO &amp; MD S N Subrahmanyan said in the statement. <\/p>\n<p>The company said it has been involved in developing a strong supply chain of local vendor partners in its businesses like it did for over 80 per cent localisation for its 155mm\/52 calibre self-propelled K9 Vajra-T guns, supplied to Indian army.<\/p>\n<p>It is also nurturing the local manufacturing and construction ecosystem involved in producing efficient and cost-effective substitutes for the global markets.<\/p>\n<p>The company said as a long-term proponent of Make in India, Larsen &amp; Toubro has been contributing for almost all key engineering and technological developments in the country for over eight decades.<\/p>\n<p>It played a significant role in the construction of almost all nuclear reactors for the power generation. <\/p>\n<p>Larsen &amp; Toubro is an Indian multinational engaged in technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services with over USD 21 billion in revenue. It operates in over 30 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larsen &amp; Toubro on Tuesday said it is committed to reduce dependence on imported products from China and achieve self-reliance for domestic industry to support &#8216;Atma Nirbhar Bharat&#8217; initiative. As many as 20 Indian Army personnel were killed in a brutal assault by the Chinese military in Galwan last week which escalated the border tension. &#8220;Larsen &amp; Toubro, India&#8217;s leading multinational engineering, construction, technology, and financial services conglomerate is committed to achieving self-reliance for the domestic industry by creating a strong and feasible \u2018Make in India&#8217; ecosystem,&#8221; the company said in a statement. L&amp;T takes pride on being at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}