Tag: automobile and electronic industries

HMT Machine Tools Limited still manufactures industrial machines and tools with a work force of around 2,500 in six manufacturing units situated at Bangalore (Mother unit), Kochi, Kalamassery, Hyderabad (2 units), Pinjore and Ajmer. These mostly serve India's defence, government and educational Institutions.

HMT Machine Tools Limited still manufactures industrial machines and tools with a work force of around 2,500 in six manufacturing units situated at Bangalore (Mother unit), Kochi, Kalamassery, Hyderabad (2 units), Pinjore and Ajmer. These mostly serve India's defence, government and educational Institutions.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is an Indian state-owned aerospace and defence company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is governed under the management of the Indian Ministry of Defence.

Passenger and merchant ships are built at Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam.

• There is only one public sector shipping company. It is Shipping Corporation of India with its headquarters in Mumbai. It manages and operates vessels.
  
• SCI was established on 2 October 1961. SCI was also awarded the prestigious "Navratna" status by Indian Government in 2008.
  

It was towards the end of the war that the importance of establishing an indigenous automobile industry in India was realized when Premier Automobiles Ltd. (PAL) and Hindustan Motors (HM) set up factories in the mid-40s for progressive manufacture rather than assembly from imported components. HM was established in 1942 for the manufacture of certain auto components, but it was only in 1949 that the company actually began making cars. PAL was founded in 1944 by Seth Walchand Hirachand, a visionary and industrialist of pre-independent India, and as early as 1946 assembly of the Dodge DeSoto and Plymouth cars at PAL's Kurla (Mumbai) Plant commenced.

The Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF), located near Chennai in Tamil Nadu, is India's only manufacturer of heavy battlefield equipment. Avadi in Thiruvallur District is well known for Defence establishments like Heavy Vehicles factory and the Combat Vehicle Research Development and Establishment.