110 light utility helicopters to be produced under 'Make in India' initiative

The Navy is planning to procure 110 light utility helicopters, which will be manufactured by an Indian firm in collaboration with a foreign company as part of the 'Make in India' initiative, according to India Today.

This comes at a time when the Russian Kamov-226T, that began its service in 2002, is not meeting the Indian Navy's requirements. A



strategic policy had been cleared by government and an Expression of Interest would be issued to the Indian firm by the defence ministry in the next few weeks, the report said. 

In September 2014, when the Modi government had just come to power, the then Defence Minister Arun Jaitly, had scrapped a tender of 56 light utility copters.