This Monday, Prime Minster Narendra Modi will be joined by the Spanish President Pedro Sanchez to inaugurate the Tata Airbus C295 aircraft factory in Vadodara. The Spanish president, who is in India for a three-day trip, arrived at Vadodara very early on Monday.
Tata Advanced Systems, in collaboration Airbus Spain, has set up the plant. The facility was built on the TATA Advance Systems Limited (TASL), campus. There are 56 aircraft in total under the C-295 program, of which 16 will be delivered directly from Airbus Spain and the rest 40 will be made in India.
Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. will be responsible for the manufacture of these 40 aircrafts. This facility is the first private sector Final Assembly Line in India for military aircraft. It will involve a full development of a comprehensive ecosystem from manufacture, assembly, test, and qualification through to delivery and maintainance of the entire lifecycle of the aircraft.
Tatas will not be the only contributor to this program. Bharat Electrics Ltd., Bharat Dynamics, and other public sector units in defence, as well as micro, small, medium, and private enterprises, will also contribute. The C295 is a military plane, and its production will help India’s aerospace sector and propel the country to self-reliance.
In 2021 India signed a deal with Airbus for 56 C-295 Transport aircraft. 16 of these were to be shipped directly from Spain and 40 had be manufactured at the Tata facility Vadodara. Vadodara, the city of Vadodara, is decorated with beautiful lights for the arrival of two leaders.
Residents of Vadodara were happy about the visit by PM Modi and Spain’s PM. They hoped that Spain would have good international relations. Later that day, PM Modi is scheduled to visit Laxmi Vilas Palace in Vadodara. From Vadodara the Prime Minister will travel Amreli to inaugurate Bharat mata Sarovar.
He will lay the foundation for various development projects worth more than INR 4,800 crores. These projects will be beneficial to the citizens of Amreli and other districts in the state, including Jamnagar, Morbi Devbhoomi Dwarka Junagadh Porbandar Kachchh and Botad.
The Prime Minister is also expected to lay the foundation stone and inaugurate various road projects worth over INR 2,800 crores. The projects to be inaugurated are the four-laning of NH 151A and NH 51, as well as the Junagadh bypass.
The Prime minister will inaugurate and lay foundation stones for various development project worth over INR700 crores of the water department from Amreli District.
The foundation stone for the Pasavi Group Augmentation Water Supply Scheme, Phase 2, in Bhavnagar District will also be laid. This scheme will benefit 95 villages located in the Mahuva Taluka, Talaja Taluka, and Palitana Taluka, in Bhavnagar District.
The Prime Minister is also laying the foundation stone of tourism-related initiatives. This includes, among other things, transforming Karli Recharge Reservoir Mokarsagar District in Porbandar into a world class sustainable eco-tourism location.
The President will also be visiting Mumbai where, in addition to his official engagements, he is expected to interact with leaders of the trade and industry, think tanks and the film industry. He will speak at the 4th Spain India Forum organized by the Spain India Council Foundation, and the Observer Research Foundation.
He will also interact with prominent celebrities in the Indian movie industry at prominent film studios. This will foster greater collaboration between Indian media and Spanish entertainment.
