(MENAFN- KNN India) Corridors will help various individual MSMEs with their special expertise: DRDO Chairman Dr Christopher
Coimbatore, May 22 (KNN) Stressing that quality is crucial for precision products in Defence products, S Christopher, Chairman, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has said that the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) can help in producing small fabrications and various components that can be integrated.
He was speaking recently during an event in which L & T Defence handed over Integrated 1000th Akash Propulsion System Hardware for the Akash Missile at L & T's Precision Manufacturing Systems Complex (PMSC), Coimbatore.
While addressing Christopher said after the central government's Make in India drive to Indianize all products, the growth had gone up in the past 50 years by 60%.
'MSMEs are localised facilities and not integrated facilities. Corridors will help various individual MSMEs with their special expertise. Defence wants precision products and quality is very important. They can help in producing small fabrications and various components that can be integrated. Also, the government needs to invest to set up integrated defence manufacturing facilities, Christopher said.
He said Akash is one of the torch bearers of the 'Design in India & Make in India concept of the Government of India.
Larsen and Toubro (L & T) is expanding its defence component manufacturing facility in Coimbatore district and is also planning to set up an exclusive factory on its Malumichampatti campus to manufacture rocket motors for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
J D Patil, Director, Defence, L & T, said the industry and the ecosystem here were good enough to produce precision equipment.
'Earlier, we were only able to produce at our facility at Powai in Mumbai that was set up in 1940. Slowly, that entire unit will be shifted to Coimbatore. Even various orders from Baroda facility will be shifted to the district. We are going to take the number of factories to five here, he said.
Patil said they would manufacture various components of satellites such as heat shields and other components that form the basic structural part of a satellite.
'Currently, we are manufacturing these components in Baroda and we will shift all this to Coimbatore, he added.
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