Defence ministry scraps tender for Coast Guard choppers

September 30, 2012 10:05

The Coast Guard's plan to boost its maritime surveillance capabilities will have to wait as the defence ministry has scrapped its tender to procure 16 light helicopters.

Only two companies -- Indian Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, offering its ALH Dhruv, and European Eurocopter with its twin-engine Panther MB -- were in the race for the deal expected to be worth over Rs 1,000 crore.

The tender, issued in July last year, was cancelled by the defence ministry after it was found that the helicopter offered by Eurocopter was not compliant with one of the requests for proposal requirements, defence ministry officials told PTI here.

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