New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- Amid the push by the US to sell its F-35 fighter jet, India is focusing on boosting the involvement of the private sector in its Indigenous fifth-generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project to ensure its timely completion.

A committee has been formed by the Defence Ministry under Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh to look at enhancing the role of the private sector in making the indigenous fifth-generation fighter jets, defence officials said here.

The Committee has members from the Air Force and the aerospace public sector unit Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), they said.

The government is looking at multiple models of enhancing the private sector in which one is to have a joint venture with th...