{"id":395336,"date":"2021-01-14T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395336"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T07:22:43","slug":"centre-approves-purchase-of-83-tejas-jets-worth-rs-48000-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-approves-purchase-of-83-tejas-jets-worth-rs-48000-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre approves purchase of 83 Tejas jets worth Rs 48,000 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major move, the Centre on Wednesday approved the purchase 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>Singh, in a tweet, said that the deal would be a \u201cgame-changer\u201d in the field of self-reliant defence manufacturing in India. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CCS chaired by PM Sh. @narendramodi today approved the largest indigenous defence procurement deal worth about 48000 crores to strengthen IAF\u2019s fleet of homegrown fighter jet \u2018LCA-Tejas\u2019,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major move, the Centre on Wednesday approved the purchase 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. Singh, in a tweet, said that the deal would be a \u201cgame-changer\u201d in the field of self-reliant defence manufacturing in India. \u201cThe CCS chaired by PM Sh. @narendramodi today approved the largest indigenous defence procurement deal worth about 48000 crores to strengthen IAF\u2019s fleet [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395336","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=395336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}