Govt okays new list of 928 defence items to be made in India under Aatamnirbhar scheme

As part of the government’s policy to promote ‘Aatmanirbharta’ in defence and minimise imports, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the 4^th Positive Indigenisation List (PIL) of 928 strategically-important Line Replacement Units that include spares and components, according to an official statement issued today.

Details of these items, which will result in an import saving of Rs 715 crore every year, are available on SRIJAN Portal (https://srijandefence.gov.in/). These will only be procured from the Indian Industry after the timelines indicated in the list.

This fourth list is in continuation to the previous three PILs involving LRUs/Sub-systems/Assemblies/Sub-assemblies/Spares & Components which were published in December 2021, March 2022 and August 2022 respectively. These lists contain 2,500 items which are already indigenised and 1,238 items which will be indigenised within the given timelines.

The defence public sector enterprises will undertake indigenisation of these items through different routes under ‘Make’ category and in-house development through the capabilities of MSMEs and private Indian industry, thereby providing impetus to the growth in economy, enhanced investment in defence and reduction in import dependence.

In addition, this will augment the design capabilities of the domestic defence industry by involving academia and research institutions.

The public sector defence manufacturing units will soon initiate procurement action for these notified items. The industry may look for Expression of Interest (EoIs)/Request for Proposal (RFPs) on the Srijan Portal Dashboard (https://srijandefence.gov.in/DashboardForPublic) especially designed for this purpose and may come forward to participate in large number.