Rajasthan to allot land for BrahMos Project

JAIPUR: Rajasthan government has decided to allot 80 ha for setting up BRAHMOS Missile project in Pilani. Defence Research Development Organisation chief controller (R&D) Dr A Sivathanu Pillai said that the Rs 200-crore project will be rolled out soon in the state.

"We will hire around 150 technology experts for this project. Most of them would be from Rajasthan," he said.

The BrahMos (an amalgam of Brahmaputra and Moskva) missile programme is a joint venture between India and Russia. It is the fastest operational cruise missile existing in the world today and can be launched from any type of platform - land, sea, and air and precisely reach the targets either on land or at sea with high lethal effect.

"The missile is being assembled at BrahMos Aerospace located in Hyderabad," a government official said.