Financial Express
- May 18

Defence Ministry to procure 928 strategically-important Line replacement units from Indian MSMEs

To promote ‘Aatmanirbharta in Defence’ under the government’s “Make In India” initiative and strengthen the capabilities of MSMEs and the private sector, Defence Ministry released the Fourth Positive Indigenisation List (PIL) on Sunday. This list includes 928 strategically important Line replacement units (LRU), subsystems, spares, and components to be procured from the local industry. This step comes at a time when India is focusing on building resilience in the defence sector.

This list of 928 strategically-important LRUs is expected to help the government in import substitution, to the tune of Rs 715 crore. The government has added details of these items on its Srijan portal (srijandefence.gov.in).