{"id":325909,"date":"2020-09-01T05:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325909"},"modified":"2020-09-01T05:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T05:23:53","slug":"mod-signs-contracts-worth-rs-2580-cr-with-indian-companies-for-supply-of-pinaka-regiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mod-signs-contracts-worth-rs-2580-cr-with-indian-companies-for-supply-of-pinaka-regiments\/","title":{"rendered":"MoD signs contracts worth Rs 2580 Cr with Indian Companies for supply of Pinaka Regiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/mod-signs-contracts-worth-rs-2580-cr-with-indian-companies-for-supply-of-pinaka-regiments\/pinaka\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-325910\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-325910 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pinaka-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/pinaka-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/pinaka-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/pinaka-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/pinaka-543x420.jpg 543w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/pinaka.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Providing a further boost to the \u2018Make in India\u2019 initiative of the Government of India in the Defence Sector, the Acquisition Wing of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Monday signed contracts with M\/s. Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML), M\/s. Tata Power Company Ltd. (TPCL) and M\/s. Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T) for the supply of Six\u00a0Pinaka Regiments to the Regiment of Artillery of the Indian Army at an approximate cost of Rs. 2580 Crores. These Six Pinaka Regiments comprise 114 Launchers with Automated Gun Aiming &amp; Positioning System (AGAPS) and 45 Command Posts to be procured from M\/s TPCL and M\/s L&amp;T and 330 Vehicles to be procured from M\/s BEML. These Six Pinaka Regiments will be operationalized along the Northern and Eastern Borders of our country further enhancing the operational preparedness of our Armed Forces. The induction of the Six Pinaka Regiments is planned to be completed by 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">This project under Buy (Indian) categorization, with 70% Indigenous Content, has been approved by\u00a0Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and\u00a0Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Pinaka Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) has been indigenously designed and developed by DRDO and productionised by the above-mentioned defence industries. This is a flagship project showcasing public-private partnership under the aegis of the Government of India (DRDO &amp; MoD) enabling \u201cAatmnirbharta\u201d in cutting edge Defence t\u00a0technologies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing a further boost to the \u2018Make in India\u2019 initiative of the Government of India in the Defence Sector, the Acquisition Wing of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Monday signed contracts with M\/s. Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML), M\/s. Tata Power Company Ltd. (TPCL) and M\/s. Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T) for the supply of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":325910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325912,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325909\/revisions\/325912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}