SRIJAN portal

 

SRIJAN: Online Portal launched to promote Indigenisation of Defence Production

On August 14, 2020, the Defence Minister Raj Nath Singh launched “SRIJAN”, an online portal to promote indigenization of Defence production.

Highlights

The portal is to display those items that are currently being imported by Indian Defence Industry. This will help domestic industries of the country to learn and focus more on these specific items. The GoI is also providing high incentives and flagship programmes to boost the design, development and manufacturing of these items.

Hence, the portal will ultimately help the Indian Defence Industries benefit extensively by manufacturing these items. This will in turn reduce India’s Defence imports and will boost indigenization of Defence production.

About SRIJAN

The Defence Public Sector Units and the Ordnance Factory Board shall display items that are being imported on the portal.

Other Highlights

The Defence Ministry also signed two Memorandum of Understandings with IITs and Defence Public Sector Undertakings. The plan is to equip India using its own technologies rather than importing or relying from other countries. This is to be achieved through joint ventures.

In line with this plan the following agreements were signed

• The Goa Shipyard Limited during the launch of the portal, signed an MoU with Indian Institute of Technology, Goa to cooperate on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, computational field dynamics and Internet of Things.
• The BEML and IIT Kanpur signed an MoU to develop Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
• The Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Limited signed MoU with the Medha Servo Drives Private Limited for “Indigenous Overhauling of SSK Class Submarines”.
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Atma Nirbhar Bharat Saptah

It is the week long Atma Nirbhar Bharat celebrations. During the celebrations, several new facilities were launched, MoUs were signed, Expression of Interests (EOI) were issued. They include the following

• The HAL issued an EOI to manufacture 46 items that are of worth of Rs 100 crores.
• The BEL issued EOI for indigenization of five items that are worth of Rs 31 crores.
• The BDL issued EOI for 11 items that are worth of Rs 15 crores.