New Delhi: Indigenously built items including Light Combat Aircraft LCA Mark 1A, Pinaka rocket system and Akash missile system have been included in the negative list of imports to ensure that the defence services do not go in for procurement of similar systems ex-import, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
The MoD issued the clarification after release of negative list for import published on August 9 led to some queries. The Ministry has stated that these systems are also available in the international market.
"The reason for specifying systems presently made in India with part-import content is to ban procurement of such equipment or items which carry similar qualitative requirements but are often contracted under differing nomenclatures," the Ministry said.
It further added that for a product to be considered as an indigenous system, the percentage of indigenous content has to meet minimum laid down specifications.
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