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From the same article's Concluding para "Should the indigenous helicopter design and production capability be untethered from HAL and opened to private enterprise, there would be two advantages.Firstly, the delays and inefficiencies would disappear and secondly, the cost of leading edge technologies and products would reduce not just because of indigenous production, but also because of the possibility of export and economy of scale. "
Written by Gp Capt AK Sachdev(Retired), Senior Vice President, Safety & Quality, Sheorey Digital Systems.
Question : How? Magic bean?
Isn't pipavav, L&T, both privately owned, how is their delays explained?
You wanted some data on the production rate or delay and if penality was applied, it speaks volumes. If I remember correctly the naval Dhruv order was made years ago too, but the first squardon could be raised only recently.
They meant that opening the helicopter market to competition from privat companies, that it would also force HAL to put more effort to the production, or the R&D of new developments. So the key is competition, not just privatizing!