Corruption in Indian Armed Forces: 72 officers sold their weapons for profit - Army

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Corruption,deception by indian military resulted in loss of life,land, pride & wealth

I am very shocked & stunned by some of the recent developments that is taking place around us.I am depressed & disgusted.In a country like India where corruption & deception is an indispensable part to almost every sphere at every level, Indian military men were supposed to be an idol of pride,honesty & ultimate patriotism of India but when we look at the reality its stunning.Even if we decide to stay blind regarding the civil-military scams there are just too many direct & indirect corruption & deception by our military man where more often than politicians joined as a party.This saga of deception began long time back from 1965 indo pak war & continuing until India lost some vital peaks in 1999 kargil war.The tragedy lies with the fact that all along Indian military along with the dirty politicians have cheated us by concealing very vital information & facts.Rather than a verbatim I will make list of the misery that we have been passing through due to our failed & utmost corrupted military politician synergy Whereas the individual bravery & success is being methodically used to cover the overall total failure of our defense system....................To be continued
 
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I know with the kind of educational system that prevails in pakistan you are not expected to read norman lewis or winfred fank but little bit of dictionary work is indeed needed my friend otherwise all you receive from every decent public forum is a big BYE BYE only.If you cant contribute in english you may write in hindi with english scripts & for comprehension part you have easily available softwares in the internet.
 

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I know with the kind of educational system that prevails in pakistan you are not expected to read norman lewis or winfred fank but little bit of dictionary work is indeed needed my friend otherwise all you receive from every decent public forum is a big BYE BYE only.If you cant contribute in english you may write in hindi with english scripts & for comprehension part you have easily available softwares in the internet.
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RAW data: secret funds buy cars, an office under cloud

Manu Pubby Posted online: Sun Nov 28 2010, 08:53 hrs

New Delhi :
Using secret funds to purchase cars for staff, buying snoop equipment worth $350 million without conducting user trials, building a whole new tower in the new office without any clearances — a string of controversies has gripped the country's premier foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).


RAW, incidentally, is the recipient of the largest amount of secret funds, close to Rs 350 crore this year. While there are provisions for an internal audit by a CAG official posted in the agency, its findings are never made public or even shared in a sealed envelope with a Parliamentary committee.



The latest controversies come when efforts are on to replace RAW chief K C Verma before his retirement in January next year.Indications are that S K Tripathi, the head of RAW's air wing, the Aviation Research Centre, will take over. But Tripathi retires in December, a month before Verma. So, for him to become RAW chief, Verma has to be moved out and sources said he's likely to go to the National Technical Research Organisation, where he would get another three yearsRAW Chief K C Verma, when contacted by The Sunday Express, declined to comment.




The key controversies:
About 30 Maruti Altos were purchased — using secret funds —to allegedly mollify the much-agitated junior official staff that had complaints over slow promotions and related service conditions. The procurement has been shown for "operational" purposes and it's learnt that the cars have just been handed over to each deputy secretary. A couple of them, sources said, have apparently refused to accept a car if they don't get a driver with it.




The Finance Ministry has questioned RAW for incurring almost double the expenditure for construction of a new building near the CGO complex in the capital after adding a third tower without taking clearances. While Rs 90 crore was sanctioned to construct a building with two wings in 2005, a third wing was added without taking the required clearances, shooting cost up to Rs 160 crore. With the finance department strongly objecting to changes in the design plan, the building has been lying unused for over a year now. For, no money has been released to complete the interiors. It is learnt that an internal committee of RAW has been asked to report on how these changes were sanctioned.



The Finance Department of the Cabinet Secretariat — under which RAW falls — is also learnt to have raised serious objections against two major contracts that have been finalised by the agency, including a $350-million deal to supply airborne electronic surveillance systems. Besides concerns on competitiveness of the bids, the main objection is that both contracts were finalised without carrying out user trials, as is the norm in all defence contracts.




Also under the scanner is the purchase of a VSAT (satellite communication) monitoring system. In December 2009, RAW approved the purchase of untested interception equipment to snoop on enemy satellite communication on the basis of a "live performance" in Ukraine and not on the basis of user trials at home. Moreover, a top RAW official cited ISRO's endorsement of the system to clear the purchase worth Rs 11.7 crore. However, records later showed that ISRO had, in fact, rejected the system. This was confirmed in writing by the Defence Intelligence Agency — under the Ministry of Defence — that was ordering a similar system through ISRO. The purchase of the VSAT monitoring system has also invited objections from the Finance Department of the Cabinet Secretariat.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/raw-data-secret-funds-buy-cars-an-office-under-cloud/717151/
 

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The solution for this is to publicly announce the execution of such guilty officers. Only a publicly displayed court martial in front of cameras where millions are viewing would crush their evil thinking when they are insulted in front of the whole nation, and then lined up in front of a firing squad and executed. This would send a cue to the corrupt officers who are planning to do any scam in the future.

PLAN did this to their one Naval officer who leaked stuff to West. I think death penalty needs to be liberally used in this country to as to shut the mouths of traitors and to silence the bloody liberal so-called intellectuals who are experts in talking against the nation.
 

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The military, the media and the MoD

A veneer of civility: the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister with the three service chiefs at the combined commanders' conference earlier this year.
by Ajai ShuklaBusiness Standard, 30th Nov 10


If the military's response to the battering it has taken from a series of scams and scandals, which has been to stand about looking dazed, is any indicator of how it will behave in combat, let's not go to war. In case after recent case — e.g. the Sukhna land use allegations; the CAG's observations about troops being supplied outdated rations; the fake encounter in Machil, J&K; and the Adarsh housing society scam — the media has bombarded the military with a dizzying barrage of fact and fiction, while the defence PR machinery has done nothing to limit the damage.
Disempowered by the generals and ignored by the media, the PR managers are mere spectators.
In their place, top generals walk out to bat on this crumbling wicket and find themselves predictably bowled. On Saturday, the IAF boss, Air Chief Marshal P V Naik, while visiting the National Defence Academy Kharakvasala, responded thus to media interrogation on the Adarsh Society: "My message is not to get too influenced by these things. Only 1 per cent of the people are involved."
This is not just statistical naiveté; 1 per cent of a military that has 1.8 million persons would add up to 18,000 corrupt people. More worryingly, it highlights the top brass' apparent belief that they can simply brush off the growing public suspicion that venality is pervading the top levels of military command.
But there is a deeper structural reason behind the military's abject surrender of a reputation for honesty that has been won over generations: the troubled relationship between the military and the Ministry of Defence (MoD). With the latter having arrogated to itself complete control over the military's public relations, the MoD cell that handles the forces' public interface focuses not on the military's image, but on Defence Minister Antony's. Headed by a competent joint secretary rank officer, with representatives from each of the three services, the MoD's PR office has not, even in the face of the current media assault, masterminded any attempt to limit the damage or to shore up the military's public image.
It would be shocking to suggest that the MoD deliberately undermines the military's image. Nevertheless, the recent crises have illustrated that the MoD's PR office does not advise or work with the generals in managing or limiting media-inflicted damage. This was most evident at the height of the Sukhna land use investigation, when the MoD's PR machinery was assiduously relaying details of Mr Antony's squeeze on the Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor, even as the latter appeared to be oblivious to the built-up media pressure.
So why, the intelligent reader would query, does the military not get around to managing its own image? The answer: the army tried, but was shot down. Early this decade, the Army Liaison Cell (ALC) was created as an interface with the media, but the MoD quickly emasculated that body, circumscribing its role to render it incapable of managing day-to-day media relations, far less conceiving and implementing a sustained image-building programme. The air force and the navy quickly got the message and decided against setting up parallel structures.
Watchers of the Indian military will recognise a historical continuity in the MoD's curbing of the ALC. India's pre-Independence equilibrium between the viceroyalty, colonial bureaucracy and the military was transformed in 1947 into unmistakable domination by the newly-born "freedom-fighter" polity, which used the bureaucratic instrument to exercise a stranglehold over the military. This political-bureaucratic alliance has instinctively quashed the ALC, which it views as the army's unacceptable attempt to assert jurisdiction over the crucial realm of public relations.
If the three chiefs were really intent on safeguarding the interests of the army, navy and the air force, they would jointly demand from Mr Antony the right for India's most respected public institution to manage its own image, rather than reserving their combined advocacy for issues relating to remuneration and inter-se parity with the bureaucracy. Renewing in the public mind the Indian soldier's traditional associations of izzat (respect) and imandari (honesty) would far better serve the jawan than a few hundred rupees.
For this to happen, the military needs to accept and internalise that the new activism of the Indian media is indeed corroding its public image. The services must develop a more sophisticated understanding of media functioning, which can only come from working within the media for sufficient periods. But "embedding" future PR officers within the media, perhaps for one-year or two-year secondments, has not even been considered by the military, far less the painful process of pushing such revolutionary ideas through an unwilling bureaucracy. Despite the enterprise and ingenuity of the average army colonel (full disclosure: I was one such!), the army's PROs who are pushed into the ALC for two-year tenures struggle to adapt to an unfamiliar and hostile environment rather than successfully fashioning the military's image.
It seems likely that — given eroding societal and public mores and increased activism of the Indian media (leaving aside for later a discussion of the media's own mores) — the military will face a growing clamour of allegations of wrongdoing, many of them founded on truth. With the MoD's current PR set-up, oriented towards the ministry rather than the military, the absence of military PR structures could cause painful and avoidable damage at the hands of media kangaroo courts.
This is not to suggest that many of the recent allegations against the military are baseless or motivated. What is needed is to recognise the malaise and to counter it effectively, not pretend that the issue is so insignificant that it will melt away by itself. Despite the evident decline on the battlements, the foundations of the military remain strong. It is this message that a new breed of PR managers must effectively convey.





http://www.indian-military.org/news-archives/indian-army-news/1195-the-military-the-media-and-the-mod.html
 

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Army Officials Involved in Illegal sale of Arms

PIB] A case relating to sale on Non Standard Pattern (NSP) weapons by Army Officers and a JCO has come to light. 41 officers, 01 JCO and 04 retired officers were found to have sold the NSP weapons without taking sanction of competent authority. Court of Inquiry held to investigate into the case has identified six arms dealers buying the illegal arms from the army personnel. Suitable remedial measures by way of amendment of SAO 1/S/96 and issue of a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure have been taken by Army Headquarters.

This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a written reply to Smt. Shobhana Bhartia in Rajya Sabha today.





http://www.indian-military.org/news-archives/indian-army-news/1203-army-officials-involved-in-illegal-sale-of-arms-.html
 

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When Indian Army buys fuses, good money burns

BY: tehelka.com

THE AVALANCHE of corruption allegations has not abated for the Indian Army. This time, the deal in question is the massive irregularities in the tender process for the procurement of fuses for three artillery guns: 105 mm, 130 mm and 155 mm. It is alleged that South African firm FUCHS Ltd has monopolised supplies via Indian public sector undertakings for the past several years. The tender is worth about Rs. 1,000 crore.

What is surprising is that as early as 2008, the multi-party Committee of Petitions (CoP) of the Lok Sabha, hearing a complaint on the issue, ruled that fuses must be procured though tenders and no further monopoly should be permitted.

The committee made some strong recommendations, saying, "The entire matter needs to be investigated thoroughly by an appropriate agency to unearth the motives and financial irregularities in procurement of electronic fuses." It strongly deprecated the "indefensible" arguments of Army Headquarters (AHQ) for sticking to a single vendor in the first instance and deplored the failure of the Ministry of Defence to introduce a multi-vendor system.

Despite this clear directive, AHQ found imaginative ways to scuttle the directive of the CoP, using a request for proposal (RFP) for 10 lakh fuses. At first, a global request for interest was issued as no Indian firm manufactures electronic fuses. But at the next stage of the RFP, the procurement procedure was tampered with by manipulating specifications. A paragraph about giving priority to indigenous products was inserted, knowing well that this would limit participation in the tender. So, no global RFP was issued, leaving the coast clear for the Indian company.

"Tenders were manipulated and crafted in such a way that no other company except FUCHS Ltd of South Africa under the cover of PSU Electronic Corporation of India ltd (ECIL), could qualify in these tenders," says Maharajganj MP Harsh Vardhan, who is a member of the ministry's consultative committee. "What is shocking is that to ensure ECIL is not disqualified due to the single-vendor situation, they roped in another PSU, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). BEL has never manufactured an hearelectronic fuse. This was just to ensure that ECIL is not in a single-vendor situation on paper and force the MoD to continue purchases from a single source."

Another complainant, HN Sharma, who used to be political adviser to late prime minister Chandra Shekhar, points out the clear nexus between ECIL and the Artillery Wing. "In a note sent to the Lok Sabha Committee, the army admitted that former director-general of Artillery Lt Gen Charanjit Singh joined ECIL immediately after retirement," he says. "But since ECIL had been routinely appointing army officers after retirement and nobody ever objected, the army did not do anything about it."

Sharma, who filed the complaint along with Barmer MP Manvendra Singh, explains, "The three guns have different types of fuses. Yet, clauses like — 'if the company does not possess all three types of technology for each fuse they will not be considered' — was inserted. Specification was based on FUCHS' capability to facilitate the company. What is surprising is that ECIL is not even a defence PSU, but somehow it has emerged as sole supplier of almost 80 percent of electronic fuses. ECIL in turn depends on imports from FUCHS. Companies like ITI, IFB and few others were willing to participate but it was ensured that they do not emerge as a potential threat to ECIL's monopoly."

When these anomalies were brought to the notice of the defence minister, he ordered an inquiry into the matter with Joint Secretary Jatinder Bir Singh as its head. After thorough examination in October, the Joint Secretary came to the conclusion that the situation is not all right and recommended retraction of these tenders.

MUCH TO the surprise of many in the MoD, instead of following the recommendation, the then director-general (acquisition) SK Sharma, referred the matter to the Scientific Adviser to the defence minister. Despite the clear directive of the CoP and its own ministry, another committee was appointed under the chairmanship of the scientific adviser, which recommended the continuation of trials and said that if a singlevendor situation arises after two years, the situation can again be referred to the DAC.

According to a senior officer in the MoD, this is shocking. "Who will be responsible for enormous losses to the tune of approximately Rs. 500 crore in case recommendations of the department are implemented after two years of trial? Why was the Committee of Petition's decision overruled? Where was the need to have another committee?" he asks.

Harsh Vardhan and other MPs have written to both the CAG and CVC for a detailed probe into the issue but they have not received a reply in this case. The wait is on.





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8ak - Indian Defence News: 41 army officers face action for selling arms illegally

8ak: Indian defence Minister A.K. Antony has informed Rajya Sabha that administrative action has been initiated against 41 Army officers for allegedly selling non-service pattern (NSP) weapons in the black market in the border districts of Rajasthan.

The list of defaulters, which included one junior commissioned officer and four retired officers of the rank of a Maj General and Brigadier was provided by the District Collector of Sriganganagar to the concerned authorities. Officers can buy prohibited weapons, such as 9 mm pistols or .30 bolt action rifles, from ordnance factories at cheap prices for personal use. These are called NSP weapons.

As an interim measure, the officers have been asked to deposit their weapons back with Chairman Ordnance Depot (COD) Jabalpur. The image of the Indian Army has taken a beating in the recent past, due to increasing corruption in the armed forces. Recently, four top generals, which included the 33 Corps commander and the military secretary (MS) were found to be guilty in the preliminary findings of the Court of Inquiry (CoI) in a land scam near Sukna military base. Adding insult to the battered image of the Army, has been the open outburst of Lt Gen P.K. Rath�s brother against the army chief General Deepak Kapoor, wherein, he has said that the chief was well aware of the developments, which were taking place pertaining to the land.
I think that we all have missed the trees for woods in this case. A close study of the rules has indicated that the officers are allowed to sell their NSP weapons to fellow serving officers, which they did so. Inputs have revealed that a group of 4 officers misused the faith and trust of these officers and further sold these weapons to a set of dealers on the licences of the original holders, thereby not only betraying the trust but also committing fraud. Probably the only fault of these officers is that they did not inform the Army of the sale in contravention to the relevent Army Order, which if looked at indicates a procedural lapse rather than any corruption. The Army should give a rap on the Knuckle to these officers, but try those 4.
 

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The solution for this is to publicly announce the execution of such guilty officers. Only a publicly displayed court martial in front of cameras where millions are viewing would crush their evil thinking when they are insulted in front of the whole nation, and then lined up in front of a firing squad and executed. This would send a cue to the corrupt officers who are planning to do any scam in the future.

PLAN did this to their one Naval officer who leaked stuff to West. I think death penalty needs to be liberally used in this country to as to shut the mouths of traitors and to silence the bloody liberal so-called intellectuals who are experts in talking against the nation.
Your thoughts are similar to mine.
 

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