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Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) in Hyderabad will manufacture and supply Akash missiles to the Indian Air Force
BDL has signed a contract worth about Rs.499 crore with Ministry of Defence for manufacture and supply of Akash Missiles to the IAF.
The contract was signed by Air Commodore Ajay Singhal, Air Commodore, Guided Weapons Maintenance on behalf of Indian Air Force and Commodore T N Kaul (Retd), Executive Director (Marketing) on behalf of BDL in the presence of P Radhakrishna, Director (Production), BDL in Delhi.
CMD, BDL Commodore Siddharth Mishra (Retd) said BDL was supplying Akash missiles to Indian Army and Indian Air Force. With the announcement from the union cabinet regarding clearance of Akash Weapon System for export, BDL is exploring to offer Akash for export to foreign countries. It has already received export leads from some countries expressing interest in procuring the Missile.
The Medical Oxygen Plant (MOP) technology, developed by DRDO for On‐Board Oxygen Generation for LCA, Tejas by DEBEL, DRDO will now help in fighting the current crisis of oxygen for COVID-19 patients. The oxygen plant is designed for a capacity of 1,000 litres per minute (LPM). The system can cater to 190 patients at a flow rate of 5 LPM and charge 195 cylinders per day. Transfer of Technology has been done to M/s Tata Advanced Systems Limited, Bengaluru and M/s Trident Pneumatics Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore, who will be producing 380 plants for installation across various hospitals in the country. As many 120 plants of 500 LPM capacity will be produced by industries working with Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, belonging to CSIR.
The Indian Army has made arrangements for veterans and their dependants in the Covid situation for treatment. The Indian Army is taking multiple steps to enhance its medical capacities on account of rise in COVID cases amongst the veterans and their dependents.
The International Transport Workers Federation has demanded repatriation of Indian crew on MV Ever Given by Egyptian authorities at the normal conclusion of their contracts. The ITF executive board which met on April 23 said the seafarers should be repatriated if the ship cannot leave Egypt any time soon. It may be mentioned here that there are 25 Indian crew on board the container vessel which had got stuck in the Suez canal from March 23-29. After it was refloated, it sailed to The Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal area.
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