Major stakeholders, including foreign and domestic firms, will be consulted on the defence production and procurement policy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today, asserting that the government was attempting to give a major push to military manufacturing in India.
In his address at the Defence Expo here, Modi, in the presence of top executives of global defence majors, said the government was conscious that creating a defence industrial complex is far from simple but it was sincerely working to achieve it.
We are committed to building a defence industrial complex that has room for everyone -- public sector, private sector, as well as foreign firms, he said.
The government has been projecting the 10th edition of the biennial event here as the first major attempt to transform India into a hub of military manufacturing
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