Bengaluru: Furthering the Make India push being given in aerospace and defence sector by the government, Bengaluru-based Alpha Design Technologies Private Ltd (ADTL) along with its consortium teams have inked a pact with Dr M Annadurai, Director, ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) on Saturday.

As per the contract, Alpha Design Tech will now undertake assembly, integration and testing (AIT) of IRNSS-1G satellites.

Speaking to Mathrubhumi on Saturday, Col H S Shankar (Retd), CMD, Alpha Design said that the pact is a significant one, with the Make in India mandate given priority.

“This is a significant step for us as well as Indian private sector industries. In the next 2 years, ADTL will be investing in creating, with help of ISRO, a new ultra-modern satellite manufacturing, assembly, integration, testing and qualification facilities,” Col Shankar (Retd) said.

He says the pact would enable ADTL to independently supply four to five satellites to ISRO.

“We expect more than 400 engineers, diploma holders and ITI qualified personnel to be part of Alpha Group, with a yearly turnover of Rs 200 to Rs 250 crore,” he said.

ADTL is in the process of selecting 70 of their top-rated employees to be trained at ISRO for nine months.

During the training at ISRO, the ADTL team would be assisted in on-job learning followed by actual assembly, integration and testing.

“Initially, the ADTL teams would get minimum ISRO supervision and later we would get to making complete satellites, as per the agreement,” says Col Shankar (Retd).

As a major MSME, Alpha Design has been supporting Indian armed forces over the years. Night vision devices, digital compass, soldier tracking system and simulators are some of the key products that have been successfully shipped out of the hangars of the company.

“With our foray into outer space, we have proved that sky is not the limit in ushering in Make in India and to make it fully successful. For us, these are exciting times ahead,” Col Shankar added.