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37 years for a light combat aircraft. HAL Tejas explains why PSUs need to be shut down

This isn't just with HAL but with almost every PSU

Amit Agrahari by Amit Agrahari
18 February 2020
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37 years for a light combat aircraft. HAL Tejas explains why PSUs need to be shut down

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The Indian Air Force has signed Rs. 39,000 crore deal with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), for 83 Tejas fighter jets. Tejas is among the most delayed projects of the country, and is a prime example of incompetence of India’s public sector companies. The project for indigenous aircraft was first awarded to HAL in 1983, and it took almost 4 decades for the company to deliver. The HAL made 16 fighter jets were awarded for the first time to IAF in Feb 2020, almost 37 years after the project was commenced by Indira Gandhi government. The timeline of Tejas is shown in the graphic below, created by Economic Times.

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HAL’s Tejas project can be used as an example of the failure of India’s indigenous defence production, as well as that of whole Public Sector Units dominated economy. After the country got independence, many strategic sectors including defence and civil aviation were nationalized, and private entry was shunned.

Almost all the sectors where the government shunned private players resulted in acute failure. Today, India does not have a single company among top 30 defence contractors, and the country has to import almost all important defence equipment. The Indian products manufactured by companies like HAL are so sub-standard that the armed forces refuse to use them.

HAL is among the monuments of Nehruvian economy and a testament to its abject failure. The company was established in Bangalore on 23rd December 1940 by Walchand Hirachand to promote defence manufacturing in the country. However, British government soon forcefully took over the company and nationalized. Later when India became independent, the nationalized company was brought under Ministry of Defence.

In later days, HAL was established as the premiere defence manufacturer of the country and significant amount of resources were put into it. However, HAL could not get any major breakthrough in seven decades of its existence and the country continued to import defence equipment from private manufacturers in countries like the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. All HAL has been able to achieve is to manufacture less skill intensive and tech intensive equipment for the Indian aviation sector by technology transfer from Soviet Union.

HAL is stuck in the inventories; its revenue in the previous five fiscal years increased just 4.3% per annum on average. Profits decelerated from 2,997 crore in FY13 to 2,070 crore in FY18. Execution is slowest at HAL among its global peers.

“In the absence of competition, it is habituated to a production cost plus profit regime, which has led to very low labour productivity, a bad working milieu, and wasteful production processes,”  said Bharat Karnad, a national security expert and research professor at the New Delhi based Centre for Policy Research. “Moreover, its manufacturing competence is limited to screwdrivering aircraft and helicopters from imported SKD/CKD kits under license production, with almost no capacity for technology or process engineering innovation,” he added.

In 1951, there were only 5 CPSEs with investments of 29 crore rupees but the number grew to 84 in 1969. By this time Indira Gandhi has consolidated her hold on the Congress party as well as the government.

In the subsequent decades, the number of CPSEs increased to 179 in 1980 and 244 in 1990. Bankrupt companies that were meant to be liquidated or sold were acquired by the central government under the dictatorial regime of Indira Gandhi. Economic growth collapsed due to nationalization and the economy did not recover until the private sector’s powers were unleashed in 1991.

The CPSEs are among major loss making units of the country with 82 CPSEs made losses of 25,045 crore rupees and the number of loss-making CPSEs has grown from 54 in 2007-08 to 82 in 2016-17.

The Indian economy was growing at so-called Hindu Rate of Growth (A term coined by establishment economist Raj Krishna, he blamed Hinduism for the low economic growth and argued that India could never grow at a faster pace due to Hindu culture) due to socialist economic policies. The economic growth of the country was slow “because of those very socialist policies that their kind had swallowed and imposed on the country, our growth was held down to 3–4 per cent, it was dubbed — with much glee — as ‘the Hindu rate of growth,” said business journalist and author Arun Shourie. The delivery of Tejas in 37 years shows that the Public Sector companies led model of has failed disastrously and kept India poor for decades.

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Comments 5

  1. Markhor says:
    5 years ago

    No I just don’t agree I’m sure the companies are doing great now especially since Moodi jee came to power with the slogan make in India

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  2. Nikhil A B says:
    5 years ago

    HAL is actually pride of the Nation. You always need to know that HAL is majorly aimed at mass manufacturing of aircrafts , body parts, overhauling and servicing. Usually technology and RnD and Tech Demonstrators will come from DRDO, ADA and other Defense RnD establishments. Funding is also a key criteria which plays here. You need to do proper research before saying to shut such premier MoD undertaking company.

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  3. JOSEPH DANIEL says:
    4 years ago

    This is facts we will never reach the sky what this article saying is 100000000000% true politics and corruption is playing a big part
    we should change how this works and all will be fine

    Reply
  4. Srinivas Indla says:
    4 years ago

    I don’t agree with your argument of selling public sector companies because there are several factors suc as corruption of higher officials, politicians and government policies lead to their inefficiency but by policy changes and change in management they can be converted into best companies. We have good examples of profit making companies like ISRO, singareni coal mines many more. They have turned into profits and meeting their targets by insentivising their employees and good governance.

    Reply
  5. Bernie says:
    3 years ago

    The author has exposed seven decades of incompetency, corruption & waste in HAL. The complete failure of the HAL Dhruv helicopters in Ecuador is well known, four out of seven crashed. Since 2002, 14 military and 2 civil Indian Dhruv helicopters have been involved in accidents, out of which 11 occurred in India and 5 abroad. HAL took decades to produce these jets, with a significant portion of the components, including the engine itself, all imported. This is not self-reliance but a colossal waste of public money? Now the Air Force has to accept these aircraft because they have no other goto aircraft. As the author mentioned, HAL is a screwdriver-driven entity, relying on SKD kits to manufacture sub-standard goods. A lot of hullabaloos happening now over an anticipated TEJAS deal with Malaysia, which will be a boon for the company if the deal is inked. 40 years of wasted resources to sell an aircraft? Can HAL produce indigenously, from scratch to finish, an aircraft like the Rafaele, or the F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet? Your guess is as good as mine! The author’s “Inventory Graph” says it all, inventories exceeding annual revenues. If you gentlemen out there still figure that HAL is going to turn into a profit-making machine in your lifetime, you must be a very delusional lot. It’s high time you faced the reality of the total failure of the public sector-driven defense organizations in India.

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