A National Aeronautics Commission may be constituted to facilitate coordination between civil and military aviation sectors and draw up a long-term make-in India plan to develop a degree of self-reliance. The idea of constituting the commission is the branchild of Integrated Defence Staff. It was formulated and recommended by a seven-member defence panel, headed by former Air Marshal M Matheswaran, then deputy chief of integrated defence, in a report submitted a few weeks before the UPA government left office in May 2014. The panel visited various facilities around the country and audited major aeronautical projects under way, such as development of light combat aircraft (LCA), Kaveri engine and licence production of Sukhoi-30 by HAL. The report is said to be comprehensive in analysing the structural problems of the defence production sector and providing solutions to these problems. The report has since been processed along with the Ravindra Gupta Task Force Report on Defence Modernization and Self Reliance that was submitted way back in September 2012. As a first step, the government is said to have decided to divest shares of HAL to moblize capital for its expansion and modernization. Indianmandarins has reported first that the government may unveil a big-ticket divestment plan for defence PSUs including HAL in FY17 budget.