Bengaluru, Feb 21 (UNI) Public Sector aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has decided to increase outsourcing of Aero components used in manufacture of aircraft in its facilities to private industry to ensure rationalising deployment of its workforce as well as bring down the cost of products.
Speaking at a press conference on the second day of Aero India 2019 Defence and Aerospace exposition here on Thursday, HAL Chairman and Managing Director R Madhavan said the company was outsourcing up to 30 per cent of components including Aero structures to private industry and it will be stepped up.
'We are already doing it. We want to rationalise the use of our workforce and gain cost arbitrage by increasing outsourcing work to the industry. We had outsourced work equivalent to 125 lakh man hours during last one year,' he said explaining that outsourcing work was not calculated on the basis of cost by HAL.