PM Narendra Modi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka on Monday, February 6, where he will inaugurate a helicopter manufacturing factory of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Karnataka’s Tumakuru. PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate Asia’s largest helicopter manufacturing hub in Karnataka.
Defence minister Rajnath Singh and senior officials of the Ministry of Defence will also be present for the inauguration ceremony. It is a dedicated new Greenfield helicopter factory which will enhance the capacity and ecosystem to build helicopters.
The Asia’s largest helicopter manufacturing hub will initially produce Light Utility Helicopters (LUH). LUH is an indigenously designed and developed 3-ton class, single-engine multipurpose utility helicopter with the unique feature of high manoeuvrability, informed the government on Saturday.
The factory will be expanded to manufacture other helicopters such as Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and Indian Multirole Helicopter (IMRH) as well as for repair and overhaul of LCH, LUH, Civil ALH and IMRH in the future. The factory also has the potential for exporting the Civil LUHs in future.
This facility will enable India to meet its entire requirement of helicopters indigenously and will attain the distinction of enabling self-reliance in helicopter design, development and manufacture in India. The factory will have a manufacturing set up of Industry 4.0 standards.
Over the next 20 years, HAL is planning to produce more than 1000 helicopters in the class of 3-15 tonnes from Tumakuru. This will result in providing employment for around 6000 people in the region. Apart from this, the prime minister will also lay the foundation stone of Tumakuru Industrial Township.
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Under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme, this development is spread across 8,484 acres and has been taken up as part of Chennai Bengaluru Industrial Corridor. Modi will also lay the foundation stones of two Jal Jeevan Mission projects at Tiptur and Chikkanayakanahalli in Tumakuru.
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