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Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), European Aviation Company Airbus and Tata Group’s Aerospace Branch, will jointly establish the final assembly line of H125 helicopters for the Indian Air Force (IAF) (Final Assembly Line – Fal) in Kolar district of Karnataka. The Economic Times has given this information quoting people aware of this matter as saying. This will be India’s first private sector helicopter assembly unit and will strengthen the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government of India. Its purpose is to achieve self -sufficiency in aerospace construction.
Promoting Make in India
This unit will manufacture the best -selling civil category H125 helicopter in Airbus. France, America and Brazil, will be the fourth such plant in the world. Initially, the plant will work with the production capacity of 10 helicopters annually. But will be expanded in the coming years as Airbus has estimated the demand of 500 light helicopters in India and South Asia in the next 20 years.
The plant will be built in the Vamgal Industrial Area, about two hours from Bangalore, where already other TASL plants such as satellite construction units are located. Tata has recently acquired a 7.4 lakh sqft plot in the Vamgal Industrial Area, where aircraft construction, final assembly and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhal) will be set up.
New job opportunities will be created
AEQUS chairman and CEO Arvind Meligori said that this initiative will work as a catalyst for strengthening the country’s indigenous manufacturing capacity as well as the development of advanced industrial clusters. He said that such projects generate skill development, investment in supply chains, and high -value employment, making India a strategic and competitive aerospace manufacturing center globally.
Apart from this, Tata and Airbus are also setting up assembly lines of C295 aircraft in Vadodara, Gujarat. Gujarat has recently received several major investment projects, including semiconductor plant, C295 aircraft construction, and International Diamond Bores. For this reason, opposition parties have also accused the central government of giving preference to Gujarat.
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