Coimbatore: The Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (Codissia) is all set to inaugurate the Codissia Defence Innovation and Atal Incubation Centre (CDIIC) on Wednesday. Defence secretary Ajay Kumar will chair the inaugural function that would be held online at 3pm.
According to Codissia, this is the first Atal incubation centre that is awarded to an industrial body. It would be the defence innovation hub on the southern defence corridor.
The centre would sign a memorandum of understanding with 5 Base Repair Depot and Air Force, and naval ship repair yard, Kochi, to work on indigenizing their components and products.
The Atal Incubation Centre would handhold at least 10 incubates and ensure that at least five graduate every year. It hopes to mentor and guide budding entrepreneurs interested in the field.
The inaugural function would be attended by Sanjay Jaju, joint secretary, defence indigenization project, and Puneet Agarwal, joint secretary of land systems, department of defence production. tnn