MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2020 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU MKIs, Mirage 2000s, Mig 29s swing-wing MiG-27 fighters, India to acquire 200 fighter jets for Air Force: Defence Secy and the ageing Jaguars and Mig which played an important role 21 Bisons in its inventory of during the 1999 Kargil war, was KOLKATA, Jan 12: of India," the defence secretary possible," the Defence Secretary Hindustan Aeronautics Limited fighter jets at present. decommissioned on December told reporters on the sidelines of said when asked whether a time (HAL) will be ramping up pro- The last fleet of seven 27. (PTI) The Government is in the commissioning Indian Coast frame has been finalised by duction of the LCA Mark 1 A process of acquiring around 200 Guard vessels here. which the new aircraft are to be jets from 8 to 16 per year. aircraft to cope with the deplet- Kumar said that the contract acquired. "If required, through out- ing aerial inventories of the for the LCAs will be signed Kumar said that with the sourcing, we can further Provident Fund/ESI Consultant Indian Air Force, Defence "definitely this year". design having been finalised, enhance it," he said. You know that Govt. of India has extended its Central Provident Scheme from Secretary Ajay Kumar said here "We want to do it as soon as state-run aerospace behemoth The Air Force has Sukhoi 30 01-11-2019 in J&K. This Scheme is new for private Employees and Employers today. of newly created Union Territory of J&K. Mehra Consultancy, Digiana Camp, The contract for HAL-manu- Jammu with its trained professional staff provides exemplary consultancy factured 83 LCA Tejas Mark 1 A services like making online payment, monthly return, creation of UAN Nos. and allotment of new PF/ESIC Registrations for Central EPFO and ESIC com- advanced fighter jets are in the pliances. We are proud of having more than 1500 Clients as of now for pro- final stages, he said. viding such services. Apart from these, Expression of Interest (EOI) has Contact:- 94191-19201 Darshan Kumar been floated for another 110 air- Mail ID:- [email protected] craft, based on which Request for Proposal (RFP) will be float- ed, Kumar said. "Roughly (for) 200 aircrafts, the acquisition is in process," he said. "We are in the process of finalising the contract for 83 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mark 1 A, which are advanced fighters to meet the urgent needs Govt decides to withdraw NSG from VIP security duties NEW DELHI, Jan 12: After effecting a major VIP security cut and withdrawal of SPG cover from the Gandhis, the Union Government has now decided to completely remove NSG commandos from this task, official sources said. This will be after over two decades that the 'black cat' com- mandos of the elite counter-ter- ror force will be taken out from VIP protection duties, a task not originally charted for it when the force was conceptualised and raised in 1984. The force provides proximate and mobile security cover - com- mandos armed with sophisticated assault weapons - under the top 'Z+' category to 13 'high-risk' VIPs that entails about two dozen personnel for each one of them. Officials in the security estab- lishment said that the protection duties of NSG, which include giv- ing security to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, will soon be transferred to para- military forces. The other NSG protectees include ex-CMs Mayawati, Mulayam Singh, Chandrababu Naidu, Parkash Singh Badal and Farooq Abdullah, Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP leader and former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani. Official sources said the Union Home Ministry "is of the view" that the National Security Guard (NSG) should concen- trate on its original charter of handling specific tasks of counter-terrorist and anti-hijack operations and that the task of securing high-risk VIPs was proving to be a "burden" on its limited and special capabilities. "The NSG needs to go back to its original mandate of count- er-terror and anti-hijack duties. That is the reason behind the latest move," a senior official in the security establishment said. The removal of VIP security duties from the NSG will result in freeing about 450 comman- dos, who will be used to enhance the fighting compo- nents of the force that is spread across five hubs in the country and a main garrison in Gurugram near Delhi, officials said.(PTI)