{"id":395086,"date":"2021-01-14T08:29:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395086"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T03:07:48","slug":"hal-chief-welcomes-tejas-approval-says-will-boost-indias-aerospace-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hal-chief-welcomes-tejas-approval-says-will-boost-indias-aerospace-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL chief welcomes Tejas approval; says will boost India&#8217;s aerospace sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcoming the government&#8217;s approval to the Tejas deal, chief of state-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Limited R Madhavan on Wednesday described it as a major shot in the arm towards India&#8217;s goal of achieving self-reliance in the aerospace and aeronautics sector. <\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the much-awaited deal worth Rs 48,000 crore to procure 83 indigenously-developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas from the HAL to boost Indian Air Force&#8217;s combat prowess. <\/p>\n<p>Madhavan, chairman and managing director of the HAL, said the production rate of Tejas is being augmented from eight to 16 aircraft per year through creation of new infrastructure in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcoming the government&#8217;s approval to the Tejas deal, chief of state-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Limited R Madhavan on Wednesday described it as a major shot in the arm towards India&#8217;s goal of achieving self-reliance in the aerospace and aeronautics sector. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the much-awaited deal worth Rs 48,000 crore to procure 83 indigenously-developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas from the HAL to boost Indian Air Force&#8217;s combat prowess. Madhavan, chairman and managing director of the HAL, said the production rate of Tejas is being augmented from eight to [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395086","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=395086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}