NEW DELHI: India is preparing country-wise profiles of defence products and platforms to promote their exports and the government will stand “side by side” with the domestic industry in this endeavour through diplomatic channels, a senior Defence Ministry official said Monday.
Raj Kumar, secretary, Department of Defence Production, said at a webinar that the domestic defence industry will hold web interactions with the representatives of friendly countries to figure out what kind of products and platforms they require.
“We are preparing country-wise profiles of products, weapons and platforms which are probably needed by our friendly countries.
So we are now planning to start web interaction led by the industry,” Kumar said.
“That country’s defence attache, our DPSUs (defence public sector undertakings), industry, will then figure out what is in the store for us to promote there for exports,” he said.Read more…