Government has notified the fifth Positive Indigenisation List (PIL) consisting of 346 items to minimize imports and boost self-reliance in defence. These include strategically important Line Replacement Units, spares, components, and raw materials, with import substitution value worth over one thousand crore rupees. The Defence Ministry said these items will only be procured from the Indian industry. The Ministry added that more than 12,300 items have been indigenized in the last three years. As a result, the Defence Public Sector Undertakings have placed orders on domestic vendors totaling over seven thousand five hundred crore rupees.
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