First green helicopter for Coast Guard successfully completes its maiden ground run

HAL begins supplying helicopters to Indian Coast Guard

GN Bureau | June 29, 2018


#T Suvarna Raju   #Rajendra Singh   #Goa   #Bengaluru   #Indian Coast Guard   #HAL   #PSU  

The first green helicopter built for Indian Coast Guard successfully completed its maiden ground run in Bengaluru on June 28. It was handed over to the Rotary Wing R&D centre, a design house of HAL for integration and certification of 19 new systems. Indian Coast Guard director general Rajendra Singh received the contract documents from HAL CMD T Suvarna Raju during the event.

Raju said that for the first time HAL has entered into a contract with ICG that includes performance based logistics support. The HAL-made ALH Dhruv helicopters are being extensively deployed by the ICG for search and rescue, casualty evacuation, armed patrol, coastal surveillance, VIP movement and the night SAR, he said. The certified helicopter deliveries are scheduled to commence from 2020 onwards.
 
HAL had inked a Rs 5,126 crore pact for supply of 16 ALHs to Indian Coast Guard in five year timeframe in March 2017 to boost the low intensity maritime operations and coast security capabilities. The first ALH Dhruv squadron of Indian Coast Guard was commissioned in March 2002 with its operational base at Indian Coast Guard Air Enclave in Goa. 

Comments

 

Other News

India Post Payments Bank launches WhatsApp banking services

India Post Payments Bank, in collaboration with Airtel, on Friday announced the launch of WhatsApp Banking Services for IPPB customers, enabling them to access banking services on their mobile phone. The newly launched IPPB WhatsApp Banking channel will enable IPPB customers to seamlessly c

Leadership skills you should hone/develop to grow in life

American author, speaker, and pastor John Calvin Maxwell once said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. Leadership is a skill that some naturally possess, while some hone it over the course of their lives. When we think of leadership, our minds automatically drift to the s

India’s overall exports cross all-time high of $750 billion

India’s overall exports, including services and merchandise, have crossed US$750 billion, minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal has announced. This is an all-time high and this achievement comes in the 75th year of independence as we celebrate the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Addr

Climate actions being implemented to deal with impact of heat waves

India’s climate actions cut across various sectors and are being implemented through various programs and schemes of different union ministries, departments and state/ union territory governments.  The government of India through concerned ministries and departments organises workshops, exhibiti

Banks must hear borrowers before declaring their accounts as frauds: SC

In a judgment with far-reaching implications, the Supreme Court has held that the civil consequences of an account being declared as fraud under the Reserve Bank of India (Frauds Classification and Reporting by Commercial Banks and Select FIs) Directions, 2016 or its Master Directions on Fraud amount to ci

India’s forest cover increases by 5,516 sq km in four years

The Dehradun-based Forest Survey of India (FSI), an organization under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, carries out the assessment of forest cover biennially since 1987 and the findings are published in the India State of Forest Report (ISFR). As per the latest ISFR 2021, there is a

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


Archives

Current Issue

Opinion

Facebook    Twitter    Google Plus    Linkedin    Subscribe Newsletter

Twitter