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Karnataka: PM Modi Unveils India’s biggest helicopter manufacturing Facility

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the country's largest helicopter factory on Monday. The Prime Minister has dedicated the helicopter factory of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Tumakuru. The Prime Minister is laying foundation stones for various development initiatives during the visit. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and head of HAL were present on the occasion.

By: Priyanka Verma  Pardaphash Group
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Karnataka: PM Modi Unveils India’s biggest helicopter manufacturing Facility

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the country’s largest helicopter factory on Monday. The Prime Minister has dedicated the helicopter factory of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Tumakuru. The Prime Minister is laying foundation stones for various development initiatives during the visit. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and head of HAL were present on the occasion. HAL chief presented a memento of Dhruv helicopter to PM Modi.

This will be Modi’s third visit to the poll-bound state in less than a month. The Prime Minister had visited Hubli on January 12 and inaugurated the National Youth Festival. Later, on 19 January, he held a road show in Yadgiri and Kalaburagi districts, where he demonstrated development and social welfare programs to woo voters, leading to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) going to the assembly elections in April–May. Found a ‘launchpad’ for Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate ‘India Energy Week (IEW) 2023’ in Bengaluru which will be held from February 6 to 8. The objective of the event is to showcase

India’s growing power as an energy transition superpower. Explain that this factory will manufacture about 30 helicopters every year and it can be increased to 60 and then 90 per year in a phased manner. First flight test of LUH has been done. The factory will be augmented to manufacture other helicopters such as the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and the Indian Multirole Helicopter (IMRH).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the HAL helicopter factory in Tumakuru in the afternoon, the foundation stone of which was laid by the Prime Minister in 2016. It is a dedicated greenfield helicopter factory which will give a boost to the helicopter manufacturing capability and its adaptive mechanisms. This helicopter factory is Asia’s largest helicopter manufacturing facility and will initially produce Light Utility Helicopters (LUH).

The factory will be expanded to repair LCH, LUH, civil ALH and IMRH in future along with manufacturing other helicopters like Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and Indian Multirole Helicopter (IMRH). The factory also has scope for export of civil LUH in future. With this centre, India will be able to meet its entire requirement of helicopters indigenously and will have the distinction of self-reliance in helicopter design, development and manufacturing.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also lay the foundation stone of Tumakuru Industrial Township. An industrial township spread over an area of ​​8,484 acres has been developed under the Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor in three phases at Tumakuru under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme. The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for two Jal Jeevan Mission projects at Tiptur and Chikkanayakanahalli in Tumakuru. More than 30 ministers from across the world will be present in the programme. It added that there will also be over 30,000 delegates, 1,000 exhibitors and 500 speakers who will discuss the challenges and opportunities of India’s energy future.

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