The NDA’s deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets is cheaper than an UPA-era agreement for 126 planes, according to a CAG report tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.
The Comptroller and Auditor General’s report says the second deal, which is exclusively for planes in a “flyaway” condition, is cheaper by 2.86 per cent.
But the Centre has previously claimed that its deal is 9 per cent cheaper than the first deal.
In the UPA deal, 18 planes were supposed to delivered in a flyaway condition and the rest were meant to made in India by HAL.
Another key difference between the two agreements in the offset clause in the NDA’s, which requires the French jetmaker, Dassault Aviation, to invest in Indian firms.
