-SATISH HANDA

Union Home Ministry of our country has already granted second license to manufacture small fire arms including 32 Bore Pistols & Rivolvers, 38 Bore Rivolvers,  9 mm Pistols, Sports Rifles, Assault Rifles, Carbines, Sniper Rifles and AK47 Rifles under Prime Minister Narender Modi’s dream project ‘Make in India’ to make country not only self-sufficient but also export manufacturing products to other countries. The license has been given to Amol Steel Private Limited at village Talwandi Rana near Hisar Airport in Haryana state likely to start production of arms by the end of this year.

Earlier, a small fire arms manufacturing license was given to another firm  Jindal Defence Company under foreign direct investment (FDI) scheme. The manufacturing of high-tech automatic small fire arms will earn name and fame for the country across the world. According to Inder Sain Managing Director and Arun Garg Executive Director of Amol Steel Private Limited, their firm is altrady dealing with Steel Authority of India Limited and National Steel Corporation Limited and designing of automatic fire arms will be done by design export weapon engineers already engaged by the company to start designing of high tech arms.

Arun Garg told that there are high hopes expected from this project, which will not only meet domestic requirement of automatic small fire arms with technical support of renowned manufacturers from Israel, Germany and Russia besides export of manufactured fire arms to other countries. He said, work to install unit including proof testing has started on war-footing basis likely to start full fledge production by the end of this year.