The defence ministry, on 18 May, said it has intensified the drive for indigenisation of defence items being carried out by state-run manufacturers. It said the progress of the indigenisation process by the defence public sector undertakings (DPSUs) was being reviewed on weekly basis by Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar.
The ministry said a comprehensive user-friendly ‘dashboard’ on the SRIJAN portal has been developed to monitor the status of progress of the indigenisation process.
“This dashboard enables real-time end-to-end updates of various activities being taken up by the respective DPSUs during the process of indigenisation,” the ministry said in a statement.
“It provides transparent information, analytics and various customised reports to assess the performance of the DPSUs,” it said.
The ministry said relevant information like details of items to be indigenised, tentative order quantity, concerned DPSU, route of indigenisation to be adopted, details of in-charge nodal officer, requests for proposal and project sanction order have been kept in public domain to make it accessible to the industry.
“The dashboard will be accessible by industry shortly. The industry partners can view the details on the dashboard and avail opportunity as per their capabilities in order to become partners in ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’,” the ministry said.
The government wants to reduce dependence on imported military platforms and has decided to support domestic defence manufacturing.
The Defence Ministry has set a goal of a turnover of USD 25 billion (Rs 1.75 lakh crore) in defence manufacturing in the next five years that including an export target of USD 5 billion (Rs 35,000 crore) worth of military hardware.
