Lok Sabha Question No. 4679 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-24
Subject: Defence Production Units
Ministry: DEFENCE
Asked by: Mimi Chakraborty

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

## DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE PRODUCTION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4679

TO BE ANSWERED ON 24 th  March, 2021

## DEFENCE PRODUCTION UNITS

4679. MS. MIMI CHAKRABORTY:

Will the Minister of DEFENCE j{kk ea=h be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government has signed agreement with foreign countries to set up equipment manufacturing units and defence production units in the country during the last three years;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the agreements thereto;
- (c)  the  present  status  of  all  the  defence  deals  in  respect  of  foreign  agreements  that  have  been done since 2013-14 period to 2020 December therefor;
- (d)  the  details  of  capacity,  production  and  participation  of  our  public  sector  units  to  promote indigenization and self-reliance in the defence sector; and
- (e)  the  details  of  domestic  private  partners  coordinating  and/or  participating  in  such  defence deals of the country since 2013-14?

## A    N    S    W    E    R

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

(a) to (e): A statement is attached.

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(SHRI SHRIPAD NAIK)

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN THE REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  4679  FOR  ANSWER  ON  24.03.2021  REGARDING 'DEFENCE PRODUCTION UNITS'

(a)  &  (b):    During  the  last  three  years,  Government  has  signed  Agreement  on  'Mutual Cooperation  in  Joint  Manufacturing  of  Spares,  Components,  Aggregates  and  other  material related to Russian/Soviet Origin Arms and Defence Equipment'.

(c)   Since 2013-2014 till December, 2020, 11 important defence agreements have been signed with foreign countries for defence cooperation.

(d)   Ministry of Defence has notified a 'Negative list' of 101 identified items for which there would be an embargo on the import beyond the timeline indicated against them.  This is a big step  towards  self-reliance  in  defence.    This  offers  a  great  opportunity  to  the  Indian  defence industry  including  Defence  Public  Sector  Undertakings  (DPSUs)  to  manufacture  these  items indigenously and develop capabilities to meet the requirements of the Armed Forces.  This list includes some high technology weapon systems like artillery guns, assault rifles, corvettes, sonar systems, transport aircrafts, light combat helicopters (LCHs), radars etc. to fulfil the needs of our Defence Services.  Further, an indigenization portal namely SRIJAN has also been launched in August,  2020  for  Defence  Public  Sector  Undertaking  (DPSUs)/Ordnance  Factory  Board (OFB)/Services with an industry interface to provide development support to MSMEs/Startups/Industry for import substitution.  As on date, 9370 Defence items, which were earlier imported, have been displayed on the portal.  The Indian industry has shown interest for 1864 displayed items so far.

(e)    Domestic private  partners  are  allowed  to  participate  in  such  defence  deals.  The  details  of such deals and the partners therein cannot be divulged at this stage due to strategic reasons.

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