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Defence indigenisation and exports
How India buys arms and makes them at home: the acquisition council and its procedures, lists that reserve items for Indian industry, defence industrial corridors, exports and foreign investment. It serves GS3 answers on the indigenisation of technology.
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Positive Indigenisation List
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A private firm will not spend on developing a part unless it knows the order is waiting, and a Positive Indigenisation List is that assurance written down. The sixth one was notified in August.
- The Department of Defence Production notified the sixth list, of 405 items.
- The 405 are line replaceable units, sub-systems, spares and components rather than whole platforms.
- They fit platforms such as the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), the Su-30MKI, T-90 tanks and the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM).
- SRIJAN, the defence indigenisation portal, has listed over 33,000 items since 2020, of which over 15,700 are indigenised.
- In the same month the Defence Minister approved transferring the Defence Research and Development Organisation's (DRDO) technologies for all conventional missile systems to Indian industry.
What changed
Background reading: PIB, 25 Aug 2026: DRDO missile technology transfer and sixth Positive Indigenisation List (opens in a new tab)