MoD signs Rs 2,000-cr deal with BEL to boost Army’s air defence capabilities
The contract was signed and exchanged by senior MoD and BEL officials in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh here on Friday.
The contract was signed and exchanged by senior MoD and BEL officials in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh here on Friday.
The contract was signed in the presence of Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti, Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff, and Manoj Jain, Chairman and Managing Director, BEL, a statement from the Naval spokesperson read.
Bharat Electronics Limited (Bel) has hailed the performance of India's indigenously built Akashteer, the air defence system, for its role in Operation Sindoor.
In a joint operation carried out by the Central, state, and military intelligence agencies, a BEL employee was arrested here for allegedly passing defence secrets to Pakistani operatives across the border.
In a significant boost to India's indigenous defence capabilities, the Ministry of Defence has signed a capital acquisition contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Ghaziabad, for the procurement of low-level transportable radar (LLTR) at a total cost of Rs 2,906 crore.
The project is under the Buy {Indian– IDMM (Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured)} category comprising contemporary and niche technologies.
The five-year contract spanning from 2023 to 2028 is valued at Rs 2400 crores was signed in Bengaluru yesterday. It involves supplying critical avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), flight control computers and night flying LRUs.
The contract documents were handed over by Mr E P Jayadeva, General Manager LCA Tejas Division, HAL to Mr Manoj Jain, General Manager (EW&A) BEL, at the occurrence.
Defence contributed 82 per cent of sales revenue of BEL in 2019-20, up from 68 per cent in the previous fiscal.
India’s 7,520-km long coastline passes through the Bay of Bengal in the east, Arabian Sea in the west and Indian Ocean in the south.
