Ministry of Defence signs Rs 2,312 crore contract with HAL for 8 Dornier 228 aircraft

The Defence Ministry on Thursday said it has signed a contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the acquisition of eight Dornier 228 aircraft along with operational role equipment for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) for Rs 2,312 crore.

The order is expected to generate significant direct and indirect employment by strengthening the HAL’s production ecosystem and supporting a broad network of MSMEs and ancillary industries.

It will also create sustained opportunities in Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul and life cycle technical support, according to an official statement.

The contract was signed under the Buy (Indian) category in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh. The contract reinforces the government’s commitment to Aatmanirbhar Bharat and ‘Make in India’ while bolstering India’s maritime security architecture.

HAL on Thursday reported a strong financial performance for the December quarter of the current financial year (Q3 FY26) as the defence public sector company posted a 29.6 per cent year-on-year rise in its consolidated net profit. Its profit after tax for the quarter stood at Rs 1,866.66 crore, compared to Rs 1,439.79 crore in the same period last financial year (Q3 FY25), according to an exchange filing.

Meanwhile, India is gearing up to give its aerospace ambitions a big push with a massive investment of about Rs 65,400 crore ($7.44 billion) to develop and produce fighter jet engines by 2035. The plan aims to make India self-reliant in one of the most critical areas of defence -- aircraft propulsion, according to reports.

The project marks a strong step towards reducing dependence on imports and building engines that can power the next generation of Indian fighter jets. From the advanced Tejas Mk2 to the stealthy AMCA, and from upgraded fighters to unmanned aircraft, India plans to build around 1,100 engines in the next decade.

For the first time, India is inviting private companies to participate in fighter jet development, opening new opportunities for innovation and growth in the aerospace sector. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will work alongside private and global players to share the workload and boost production.

 

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[ronin-desi]

Boosting profit of HAL is so misplaced priorities!
Mandate of HAL to service orders on time and with best quality. HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only. Govt have no business of manufacturing as its universally flop show.

 

[netram]

Boosting profit of HAL is so misplaced priorities!
Mandate of HAL to service orders on time and with best quality. HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only. Govt have no business of manufacturing as its universally flop show.

"HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only"
If countries like China and Israel had listened to illiterate and clownish ideas like yours, They wouldn't have AVIC(and its n number of subsidiaries that have managed to reverse engineer ) and IAI(Which India is still buying from).
Do You even know WHY private companies are often kept away from strategic industries ? What India needs is structural and operational reforms starting at the ministerial level down to the local -production centres(Like the Chinese continously did for ALL their SOEs which themselves were placed under SASAC) with clear foreward thinking objectives but with flexible methods to achieve them, not juvenile "hame pributization chuhiye".

 

[ronin-desi]

"HAL should be dismantled and turned into facilitator and consulting role only"
If countries like China and Israel had listened to illiterate and clownish ideas like yours, They wouldn't have AVIC(and its n number of subsidiaries that have managed to reverse engineer ) and IAI(Which India is still buying from).
Do You even know WHY private companies are often kept away from strategic industries ? What India needs is structural and operational reforms starting at the ministerial level down to the local -production centres(Like the Chinese continously did for ALL their SOEs which themselves were placed under SASAC) with clear foreward thinking objectives but with flexible methods to achieve them, not juvenile "hame pributization chuhiye".

China is communist country so dont compare Chinese firm to Indian firm.
its like compairing SC/ST/OBC mad house with IAS officer in their final penultimate retirement years with no ownership of project or product.
Chinese model of mil-industrial complex is in completely different dimension.
Indian mil-industrial complex based on employment scheme of MNREGA style to offer employment.
Russian and Chinese work by dedicated, patroitic and lean and mean machine to innovate and iterate to reach desired goal! By hook or crook.
Such ferver and zeal in Indian govt employees, no way ! on scale of 1-10, we are at 1 or 2 max while Chinese/Russian mindset at 9-10.
my friend in worked in this eco-system so i have front seat experience of their mindset and professionalism.

only way forward is privatisation and these Disneyworld utopian wishful thinking of your kind is joke and very expensive to poor tax payers.
till date foot soliders are donning PATAKA helmat not proper modern helmat. thank god INSAS joke taken away.

 

[ronin-desi]

Bharat 2026, 4th largest economy of the world need PRIVATISATION and divestment of all sarkari companies! they are termites and burden on nation !!
look at private banks, airlines, cars, telecommunication, our defence forces need same fruits of private companies.
instead of buying from current corrupt sarkari mil-industrial complex+foreign_vendors