Address: Kanjikode West, Palakkad, Kerela 678623, India

Telephone: 491-566127/128/129/130

Fax: 491-566135/566240

E-mail: mail@ilpgt.com

Director: Unlisted

Subordinate to: Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

Primary Function: Manufacture of control and instrumentation systems for industry.

Description: Instrumentation Limited (IL) is a Government of India enterprise. The first unit of the company was established in Kota, Rajasthan in 1964 to manufacture "electronic and pneumatic instruments..." A second unit was established in 1974 in Palakkad, Kerela to manufacture "control valves, butterfly valves, pressure reducing valves, and allied equipment required by control and instrumentation packages..."

Activities: The Palakkad unit of Instrumentation Limited manufactures:

Pressure regulators used in the electro-pneumatic actuation systems of the Akash and Trishul surface-to-air missiles.

Key Sources:
Instrumentation Limited, Palakkad, <http://www.ilpgt.com/html/i0100frm.htm>; Dr. N.C. Birla and B.S. Murthy, eds., "Control and Guidance," Indian Defence Technology: Missile Systems (1998: DRDO, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi), pp. 137-138.

	Updated July 2003