Indian Navy Indigenisation Plan

In News

• The Navy in 2014 promulgated the Indian Navy Indigenisation Plan (INIP) 2015-2030 to enable indigenous development of equipment and systems in weapons and aviation related items.

About INIP

• Aim: It provides a flexible and accessible interface for academia and industry with Indian Navy capability development apparatus.
• The Navy has indigenised around 3400 items under INIP, including over 2000 machinery and electrical spares, over 1000 aviation spares and over 250 weapon spares.
• The existing Naval Aviation Indigenisation Roadmap (NAIR) 2019-22 is also under revision.
  • All fast moving aircraft mandatory spares and high cost indigenous repairs are being included in the revised NAIR 2022-27.
• Since 2014, 78 % of Acceptance of Necessity (AoN), by value, and 68 % of contracts, by value, have been awarded to Indian vendors.
• The Navy has more than 20 Make I & Make II cases being progressed, under various domestic development routes of the procurement procedure.

Focus areas

• Some of the focus areas include:
  • Indigenous design and development and production of Anti-Submarine Weapons and sensors.
  • Satcom and electronic warfare equipment.
  • Anti-Ship Missiles and Medium Range Surface to Air Missile.
  • Combat management system.
  • Software defined radios.
  • Network encryption devices.
  • Link II communication system.
  • Main batteries for submarines.
  • Distress sonar system.
  • Components of missiles and torpedoes etc.

What is the need?

• This falls in line with the Government’s push to cut down on defence imports and boost domestic manufacturing which has gained further urgency due to ingoing Russian war in Ukraine and the large scale dependency of Indian military on Russian arms and equipment.
• There is particular focus on the fight component (which is weapons) as there is still a long way to go compared to the float and move components.
  • Float consists of the ship, move comprises the propulsion and fight consists of weapons and sensors.

• Four in-house indigenisation committees have been formed to handle indigenisation of spares with respect to naval aircraft.
• The Naval Liaison Cells (NLCs) located at various places have been nominated as ‘indigenisation cells’.

Source:TH