Sainik Covers
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
2020 1-15 June Vol 67 No 11 ` 5 SAINIK Samachar Tejas FOC Aircraft Handed Over to the IAF pic: PRO Navy Naval Base Workshop at Bogda, Goa was inaugurated by Shri Shripad Naik, Raksha Rajya Mantri on June 1, 2020. Flag Officer Commanding Goa Naval Area and Chairman, Mormugao Port Trust were also present on the occasion. pic: PRO Pune INS Shivaji teams carried out sanitization of Antar Bharati Balgram Orphanage-cum-School and food packets were distributed to children. In This Issue Since 1909 RM ExhortsBIRTH ANNIVERSARY MSMEs CELEBRATIONS to make India 4 ‘Aatmanirbhar’ in Defence Products (Initially published as FAUJI AKHBAR) Vol. 67 q No 11 11 - 25 Jyaishtha 1942 (Saka) 1-15 June 2020 The journal of India’s Armed Forces published every fortnight in thirteen languages including Hindi & English on behalf of Ministry of Defence. It is not necessarily an organ for the expression of the Government’s defence policy. The published items represent the views of respective writers and correspondents. Editor-in-Chief Ruby Thinda Sharma Senior Editor Manoj Tuli Sub Editor Sub Maj Baiju G Tejas FOC Aircraft 6 Flight Test Course 7 Coordination Kunal Kumar Handed Over to the IAF Officers Graduate with… Business Manager Dhirendra Kumar Our Correspondents DELHI: Col Aman Anand; Wg Cdr Indranil Nandi; Cdr Vivek Madhwal; Nampibou Marinmai; Akram Khurshid; Divyanshu Kumar; Savvy Hasan Khan; Azhagudurai; BENGALURU: Guru Prasad HL; CHANDIGARH: Anil Gaur; CHENNAI: M Ponnein Selvan; GANDHINAGAR: Wg Cdr Puneet Chadha; GUWAHATI: Lt Col P Khongsai; IMPHAL: Lt Col M Vaishnava; JALANDHAR : Gagandeep Kaur; JAMMU: Lt Col Devender Anand; JAIPUR: Lt Col Sombit Ghosh; KOCHI: Cdr Sridhar E Warrier; KOHIMA: Lt Col SK Sharma; KOLKATA: Wg Cdr Mandeep Hooda; Dipanita Dhar; LUCKNOW: Gargi Malik Sinha; MUMBAI: Cdr Mehul Karnik, Himanshu Singh; NAGPUR: Gp Capt BB Pande; PALAM: Wg Cdr Indranil Nandi; PRAYAGRAJ: Wg Cdr Shailendra Pandey; PUNE: Mahesh Iyengar; SECUNDERABAD: G Surendra Babu; SHILLONG; Wg Cdr Ratnakar Singh; SRINAGAR: Col Rajesh Kalia; TEZPUR: Lt Col Harsh Wardhan Pande; THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ms Dhanya Sanal K; 9 Missile Park 'Agneeprastha' to be set… 138th Course of Lt Col Abhinav Navneet; Capt (IN) CG Raju. 8 UDHAMPUR: VISAKHAPATNAM: 12 Northern Command Hospital… National Defence… Published by: 13 Contributions of DRL to Fight… 14 Indian Navy’s Green Footprint to its… A Bharat Bhushan Babu, ADG (M&C) S Subramanian, Director (PR) 16 Ultraviolet Disinfection Facilities… 17 RM Appreciates NCC's Yogdan in… Directorate of Public Relations, South Block, 18 Exercise NCC Yogdan Ministry of Defence, New Delhi-110011 Editorial Office: 20 World Environment Day Activities at… L-1 Block, Church Road, New Delhi-110001, 21 MoD initiates Dialogue with… Telefax : 23094668 Telephone : 23092768 22 Armed Forces Panorama Email : [email protected] E-in-C: ASCON-32078 For subscriptions contact : Business Manager, Sainik Samachar, Telephone : 23092768 Mission Sagar - India's Helping Hand Subscription Rates: Inland (Ordinary): One Year Rs 100.00, Overseas (Surface Mail): Rs 450.00 Concessional (per year): Rs 20.00 (Applicable for Across Indian Ocean 10 dependants of service personnel & ex-Servicemen.) For all correspondence subscribers must quote their subscription number On front cover: CAS, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria handing over the ceremonial keys of the unit to the Commanding Officer of 18 Squadron, Group Captain Manish Tolani during the induction ceremony of Tejas Mk-1 FOC aircraft held at Air Force Station Sulur on May 27, 2020. For more details visit our website: http://sainiksamachar.nic.in Follow us on: www.facebook.com/DefenceMinIndia https://twitter.com/spokespersonMoD https://www.instagram.com/prodefense/ Total pages 36 with Covers RM Exhorts MSMEs to make India ‘Aatmanirbhar’ in Defence Products aksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has appreciated the Rrole played by Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) and other Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nation’s fight against global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. He said this while addressing via video conference MSMEs E-conclave, jointly organised by SIDM, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Department of Defence Production. Shri Rajnath Singh said, “I am very happy to know that SIDM has accelerated the manufacturing of DRDO designed PPE kits, masks, ventilator parts in the field of defence industry by efficient coordination and channelisation. Within less than two months, we have not only met our domestic demand, but we can also think of helping neighbouring countries in the coming sector has been affected the most due to lockdown and time.” disruption in existing supply chains and the defence Raksha Mantri termed MSMEs backbone of sector is no exception to this. Rather, it can be said that Indian economy that accelerate GDP growth, earn the defence sector is more aggravated than other sectors valuable foreign exchange through exports and provide as the only buyer of defence products is the government.” employment opportunities. Keeping MSMEs strong is The SIDM has conducted many interactions with senior one of the priorities of the Government. He said, “There officials of the Ministry and the Armed Forces since the are more than 8,000 MSMEs, tiered partners of many lockdown came into force. This has given an opportunity of our organisations - Ordnance factories, DPSUs and to get to know the problems of defence industries and service organisations. They contribute more than 20 per many suggestions for their prevention have also been cent of the total production of these organisations.” received from SIDM. Acknowledging the hardships faced by the defence To tackle these challenges, MoD has taken several industry, Shri Rajnath Singh said, “Manufacturing steps for industries, especially MSMEs, such as: extension 4 Sainik Samachar June 1-15, 2020 of response dates of RFP/RFI, early clearance of pending payments etc. In this crisis, several financial support measures have been announced by the Government and RBI to reduce the financial burden of the industries. These will provide some relief due to the availability of additional working capital, deferment in interest payments. Raksha Mantri assured that the 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' campaign, inspired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will provide many opportunities to Indian industry and will help in restoring millions of jobs. He said, “Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has called for being 'vocal for local' in this direction. I would like to say that we have to have our indigenous products, ie 'vocal for local', but before that in our own life, 'local' has be no distinction between manufacturing and services to be focal. That is, we have to adopt 'swadeshi' products sector MSMEs. In government contracts (procurements) in our life. There is no doubt that MSMEs have a very of value Rs 200 crore or less, global tenders will not be important role in the goal of indigenous manufacturing, allowed. This will help MSMEs to grow their business. and in the goal of self-reliant India.” In the event of being unable to participate in trade fairs due to COVID-19, e-market linkages will be ensured. Shri Rajnath Singh mentioned some of the measures Government and PSUs will also ensure the clearance of announced by Finance Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman all outstanding payments in the next 45 days. under ‘Aatma Nirbhar Bharat’ scheme. Collateral free loan of 3 lakh crores for MSMEs - this will be effective Theme of the E-conclave was ‘Business Continuity in re-establishing about 45 lakh units and saving for MSMEs in Defence & Aerospace Sector’ in which employment. Subordinate debt provision of Rs 20,000 more than 800 Defence MSMEs participated. crore has been announced for two lakh MSMEs, this will Citing the example of United States where domestic help stressed MSMEs. Equity infusion of Rs 50,000 crore defence industry developed within a short span of two will be provided through ‘Mother-Daughter Fund’ for the years during the World War-II, Chief of Defence Staff purpose of benefiting the needy MSMEs. A Rs 10,000 General Bipin Rawat said India should have its own crore 'Fund of Funds' will be set up to help increase the defence industry. He urged the MSMEs to work for capacity of these units and for marketing. placing India among the top ten nations in defence The definition of MSME has been revised, so that technologies. MSMEs can be expanded. At the same time there will Secretary (Defence Production) Shri Raj Kumar in his address highlighted the measures taken to alleviate the hardships faced by defence manufacturing industry due to COVID-19. He said the DPSUs have been asked to clear payments of MSMEs, and also announced that their production targets have not been scaled down. Citing the reforms recently announced by the Finance Minister, he said these measures will help realise the target of achieving a USD 25 billion defence production by 2025. President of SIDM Shri Jayant D Patil, former president of SIDM Shri Baba N Kalyani, Director General of CII Shri Chandrajit Banerjee, senior civil and military officials of MoD, Ordnance Factory Board and DPSUs were also present on the occasion. - PRO Defence June 1-15, 2020 Sainik Samachar 5 Tejas FOC Aircraft Handed Over to the IAF he Indian Air Force on May 27, by the presentation of aircraft T2020, inducted Tejas Mk-1 FOC documents of the Tejas FOC aircraft into the recently resurrected version by the HAL CMD to the No 18 Sqn, the “Flying Bullets” at Air Force Station Sulur, marking CAS. The CAS further handed these yet another important step towards over to the Commanding Officer enhancing the operational capability of 18 Squadron Group Captain of the Air Force. The Squadron is the Manish Tolani, along with the first in the IAF to induct this platform. This is also an important milestone ceremonial keys to the unit.