{"id":395115,"date":"2021-01-14T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395115"},"modified":"2021-01-14T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T03:50:45","slug":"govt-approves-deal-to-buy-83-light-combat-tejas-aircraft-for-rs-48000-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-approves-deal-to-buy-83-light-combat-tejas-aircraft-for-rs-48000-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt approves deal to buy 83 light combat Tejas aircraft for Rs 48,000 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major decision, the government on Wednesday approved the procurement of 83 indigenously-developed light combat aircraft Tejas for the Indian Air Force (IAF) at a cost of Rs 48,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said. <\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Singh said the deal will be a &#8220;game-changer&#8221; for self-reliance in defence manufacturing in India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CCS chaired by PM Sh. @narendramodi today approved the largest indigenous defence procurement deal worth about 48000 crores to strengthen IAF&#8217;s fleet of homegrown fighter jet &#8216;LCA-Tejas&#8217;,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major decision, the government on Wednesday approved the procurement of 83 indigenously-developed light combat aircraft Tejas for the Indian Air Force (IAF) at a cost of Rs 48,000 crore. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said. In a tweet, Singh said the deal will be a &#8220;game-changer&#8221; for self-reliance in defence manufacturing in India. &#8220;The CCS chaired by PM Sh. @narendramodi today approved the largest indigenous defence procurement deal worth about 48000 crores to strengthen IAF&#8217;s fleet of homegrown fighter [&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-395115","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\/395115","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=395115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}