The National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Hindustan Aueronautical Limited (HAL) are jointly developing India's first multi purpose civilian aircraft. The project intially began in 1991 but has gone through a series of ups and downs over the years.
It was shelved but was resurrected in February 2017. More recently the Mark 2 version of 'Saras' has been succesfully test flown twice this year. It has to go through a series of tests before it can be commissioned. This light transport aircraft is a 19 seater twin engine aircraft.
Catch this video of the actual take off of 'Saras' Mark 2
