Ministry of Defence
05-February, 2018 16:37 IST
Manufacture of Ammunition by Private Sectors
The Government has approved a proposal for manufacturing of selected ammunition for Indian Army by Indian Industry. Request For Proposal (RFP) for the same have already been issued.
The Defence Production Policy promulgated by the Government, aims at achieving substantive self-reliance in the design, development and production of equipment, weapon systems & platforms required for defence. It also aims at creating conditions conducive for private industry to play an active role in the sector, enhancing the potential of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in indigenisation and broadening the defence Research & Development base in the country. In pursuance of this policy and ‘Make in India’ initiative, the Government has undertaken several measures which, inter-alia, include:-
- Introduction of a new category of capital acquisition viz. ‘Buy (Indian-IDDM)’ in Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP-2016). Under this category, indigenously designed equipment with minimum of 40% Indigenous Content (IC), or equipment with 60% IC will be considered for acquisition. This category will be the most preferred acquisition category and above the ‘Buy (Indian)’ category. Under ‘Buy (Indian)’ category minimum IC of 40% is required and under ‘Buy & Make (Indian)’ category a minimum IC of 50% will be required in ‘Make’ portion of the scheme. The ‘Make’ Procedure has been refined to ensure increased participation of Indian industry.
- Industrial licensing with respect to Defence sector has been revised and most of the components, parts, sub-systems, testing equipment and production equipment have been removed from the Defence Products List for the purpose of Industrial Licenses so as to remove entry barriers for industry, particularly with respect to small & medium segments.
- Under the new FDI policy, foreign investment up to 49% through automatic route and beyond 49% through Government route has been allowed in the Defence sector.
- Creation of level playing field between public sector and Indian private sector with regard to Exchange Rate Variation protection and levy of Excise and Customs duty.
- Incorporation of a Policy on Strategic Partnerships in the Defence Sector in DPP-2016 intending to institutionalise a transparent, objective and functional mechanism to encourage broader participation of the private sector, in addition to Defence PSUs and Ordnance Factory Board (OFB).
The indigenous production in terms of Value of Production (VoP) in respect of OFB and Defence PSUs during the last three financial years are as under:-
Year
Value of Production
(Rs. in Crore)
2014-15
46390.01
2015-16
52968.13
2016-17
55893.65
This information was given by Raksha RajyaMantri Dr.Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri Harivanshin Rajya Sabha today.
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Ministry of Defence
05-February, 2018 16:30 IST
Engagement of Private Players in Design and Development for HAL
In order to create a sustainable defence Aerospace ecosystem, HAL has engaged private partners for Design & Development (D&D) of products and technologies.
To encourage private participations, HAL has created Research & Development (R&D) corpus of 10% of its Operational Profit After Tax (PAT).
A portal for ‘Make-in-India’ has been launched on Company’s website
www.hal-india.com which gives details of various foreign Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), Systems, Spare parts, electrical, electronic items for HAL’s projects such as Advance Light Helicopter (ALH), Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Dornier (DO 228), Hawk, Jaguar etc for indigenization by Indian private industries. Following have been hosted on HAL’s website to encourage participation of private industries:-
- More than 300 numbers of systems and sub systems of mechanical, electrical, avionics, instrumentation for various HAL’s project such as ALH, LCA, DO 228, Hawk and Jaguar etc.
- More than 100 Tools, Testers and Ground Equipment (TTGE) items of SU-30 MKI, which can be taken up by private companies for maintenance, repair and indigenization.
- Details of testing facilities available at HAL for utilization by private industries.
Some of the major design initiatives taken by HAL for the following systems with the private partners are as under:
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Ministry of Defence
05-February, 2018 16:33 IST
Shortage of Ammunition for Armed Forces
The authorisation and holding of ammunition is as per operational requirement of the Indian Armed Forces. Adequate reserves have been authorised in terms of War Wastage Reserves (WWR) to cater for contingencies during war. There is adequate stock of ammunition with the Indian Armed Forces and it is well equipped for meeting any operational requirements. Further, making up of stock of ammunition to desired level is a continuous process, the requirements for which are identified every year and procurements are undertaken accordingly.
Some of the measures taken to ensure adequate availability of ammunition include placing of a Five Year Roll On Indent on Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), finalization of Ammunition Road Map in respect of certain identified ammunition and procurements thereof. In addition, financial powers to ensure the availability and maintenance of minimum levels of critical ammunition has been delegated to the Armed Forces to meet any emergent requirement and to enable maintain preparedness at all times.
The Government has taken a series of measures to enhance capacity of ordnance factory boards to meet the long term requirement of the armed forces.
These include modernization of ordnance factories by replacement/ reconditioning of outlived Plant and Machinery to sustain the original capacity, acquisition of modern technology/manufacturing processes for capacity augmentation of existing product mix or creation of capacity for new product, Civil Infrastructure and services viz. Production & Services of buildings, Power supply, Water supply, Compressed Air supply etc.
This information was given by RakshaRajyaMantriDr.SubhashBhamre in a written reply to Shri Vivek Gupta in Rajya Sabha today.
PLATFORM
SYSTEM
Light Utility Helicopter (LUH)
Smart Cockpit Display System Hardware
Light Combat Helicopter (LCH)
Control and Display Unit
Data Interface Unit
Multi-Function Display Hardware
Jaguar DARIN III
Data Transfer System
SU30-MKI
Solid State Flight Data Recorder.
The private players have expressed interest to come forward to join hands with HAL. The details of major partnership with private players are as follows:-
S. No.
PRIVATE PLAYER
PRODUCTS / TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPED
1.
M/S ACCORD SOFTWARE
CONTROL AND DISPLAY UNIT (CDU) FOR IADS OF LCH.
CONTROL SATURATION & WARNING SYSTEM OF ALH.
2.
M/S ACD TECHNOLOGIES
ANTENNA & DIPLEXER FOR UHF SATCOM.
3.
M/S AEROSPACE ENGINEERS
LUBE PUMP FOR ALH, LCH & LUH.
FUEL SYSTEM BELLOWS FOR ALH, LCH & LUH.
HYDRAULIC SYSTEM HOSES & HOSE FITTINGS FOR ALH, LCH & LUH.
4.
M/S ALPHA DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES
BSP (BOARD SUPPORT PACKAGE) AND FIRMWARE.
5.
M/S ANANTH TECHNOLOGIES
V/U HF POWER AMPLIFIER
6.
M/S ANANYA TECHNOLOGIES
AIR DATA ATTITUDE AND HEADING REFERENCE SYSTEM (ADAHRS) FOR JAGUAR DARIN III AIRCRAFT.
7.
M/S AMPHENOL INTERCONNECT
DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOLDERING (76 TYPES) AND CRIMPING TYPES (181 TYPES) OF CONNECTORS USED IN SU-30MKI AND MIG SERIES AIRCRAFT.
8.
M/S COMAVIA SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES
STATIC TEST JIG FOR AFCC.
9.
M/S DATA PATTERN
SMART COCKPIT DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR LUH.
10.
M/S DATASOL INOVATIVE LABS
CONTROL AND DISPLAY UNIT OF IFF FOR IJT, INDIAN NAVAL SHIPS.
INTEGRATED STANDBY INSTRUMENT SYSTEM OF SU-30MKI AIRCRAFT AND ALH.
11.
M/S ELECTRO CIRCUIT SYSTEMS
PCB DESIGN FOR VARIOUS PROJECTS
RECEIVER SUB MODULE OF IFF MK XII TRANSPONDER FOR BOING P81.
12.
M/S EXCELL RF TECKNOLOGIES
MANUFACTURE OF TRANSMITTER ANTENNA AND RECEIVER ANTENNA FOR AKASH MISSILES.
13.
M/S INDO ELECTROSTAT
SOLENOID VALVE.
14.
M/S KARNATAKA HYBRID MICRO DEVICES
MANUFACTURE OF ECCM MODULES.
15.
M/S L&T LIMITED, STRATEGIC ELECTRONIC CENTRE
PASSENGER OXYGEN SYSTEM (OXYGEN CYLINDER, REGULATOR, HOSE, MASK)
16.
M/S MERLINHAWK AEROSPACE
TESTER FOR ENGINE, FLY BY WIRE AND AIR INTAKE CONTROL PANEL OF SU-30 MKI AIRCRAFT.
17.
M/S MAHENDRA AEROSPACE (FORMERLY PLEXION TECHNOLOGIES)
DESIGN OF LCH FRONT & CENTRE FUSELAGE.
18.
M/S RAGA ASSOCIATES
MIXER MODULE DEVELOPMENT FOR V/UHF.
19.
M/S S WAVE SYSTEMS
M/S SAMTEL HAL DISPLAY
DATA INTERFACE UNIT (DIU) FOR IADS OF LCH.
DATA TRANSFER SYSTEMS (DTS) FOR JAGUAR DARIN III AIRCRAFT.
SMART MULTI FUNCTIONAL DISPLAY (SMFD) FOR SU-30 MKI.
20.
SYSTEMS (SHDS)
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL DISPLAY (MFD) FOR IADS OF LCH.
21.
M/S SHAKTI ENTERPRISES
CREW HELMET FOR ALH.
22.
M/S SLN TECHNOLOGIES
SOLID STATE FLIGHT DATA RECORDER (SSFDR) FOR SU-30MKI.
23.
M/S SONIC MULTITECH
SIGNAL CONDITIONING UNIT USED IN MIG-29 AIRCRAFT ENGINE HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM.
24.
M/S SYSTEMS AIDS
MULTI INPUT AUDIO WARNING UNIT (MIAWU) FOR JAGUAR DARIN III AIRCRAFT.
25.
M/S SOUTHERN ELECTRONICS
STAND BY WARNING PANEL (SWP) FOR ALH & LCH.
ENGINE FIRE DETECTION UNIT FOR ALH, LCH & LUH.
26.
M/S TURBO TECH
OIL COOLING SYSTEM FOR ALH.
27.
M/S WAVELET GROUP
TPC (TURBO PRODUCT CODE) ALGORITH, DEVELOPMENT FOR SDR (SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO).
This information was given by Raksha Rajya Mantri Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri Sambhaji Chhatrapatiin Rajya Sabha today.
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Ministry of Defence
05-February, 2018 16:32 IST
Achievements in Defence Sector
Details of New Achievements / Initiatives of the Government during the last three years in the Defence Sector are as below:-
- Reform Measures: Based on the recommendations of the Shekatkar Committee, the Government has decided to restructure posts of different corps of Army. This will free up approximately 57,000 positions of Officers/JCO’s/OR’s and civilians which will be redeployed to improve the “teeth to tail” ratio of the Indian Army in future. Further, seven Military Farms have been closed and the cattle of these Farms have been transferred to other Military Farms. Closure of six more Military Farms is in progress.
- Decentralisation in decision making: To empower the Armed Forces as also to reduce the time taken in decision making, a number of powers exercised hitherto by the Ministry of Defence have been delegated to the Armed Forces. These include powers relating to procurement of critical Ammunition/Spares; post-contract management of capital acquisition contracts as well as revenue expenditure; full powers in respect of revenue and capital account with respect to perimeter security etc.
- Strategic Partnership: Government’s policy on Strategic Partnership in the Defence Sector has been finalised. It is intended to institutionalise a transparent, objective and functional mechanism to encourage broader participation of the private sector in manufacture of major defence platforms and equipment.
- Capital Acquisition for the Armed Forces: During the last three years and current year, 119 contracts involving Rs. 1,16,522.89 crore have been signed with Indian vendors and 68 contracts involving Rs. 1,24,291.33 crore have been signed with foreign vendors for capital procurements of defence equipment.
- Policy initiatives in respect of Defence Production: ‘Make in India’ in defence sector is primarily driven by providing preference to procurement from Indian vendors under the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP), promoting indigenous design, development and manufacture of defence equipment, and other policy measures such as liberalization of the licensing regime & FDI policy by raising the cap on FDI in the defence sector, simplification of export procedure, streamlining of defence offset guidelines etc.
- Major Achievements by Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs):
- Goa Shipyard Limited delivered Naval Offshore Patrol Vessels, Damage Control Simulator, Fuel Barge, Fast Patrol Vessel for the Indian Navy and Coast Guard.
- The Bharat Dynamics Limited developed Akash Weapon System for Army, Long Range Surface to Air Missile for the Indian Navy and test fired the Anti-Tank Guided Missile.
- The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited launched the Visakhapatnam Class Destroyers and commissioned the INS Kalvari, the Scorpene class Submarine.
- During the period the Light Combat Helicopter attained initial operational clearance, first technical flight of Light Utility Helicopter was undertaken and Brahmos Integration with SU-30MKI Aircraft was undertaken by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
- Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) commissioned the secure CDMA Cellular Network at Srinagar.
- Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited delivered the Anti Submarines Warfare Corvette, Offshore Patrol Vessel, Water Jet Fast Attack Aircraft and Landing Craft Utility during the period.
- Research & Development in Defence Sector: A number of major products has been developed for defence and civilian use by the DRDO. These include the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas; Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) System; 155 mm / 52 Calibre Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS); Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) Swati; High Speed Heavy Weight Ship Launched Torpedo (Varunastra); Arudhra-Medium Power Radar; Akash Weapon System; Abhay Sonar; Hull Mounted Sonar (HUMSA); Advanced Indigenous Distress Sonar System (AIDSS); various types of Ammunition for MBT Arjun; Anti Torpedo Decoys; Electro-Optical Fire Control System for Naval Ships; Electro-Optical Sensors for Airborne Platforms; Mountain Foot Bridge; Sub-munition warheads for Pinaka; Terrain Assessment System for Trans-border Deserts etc.
- One Rank One Pension (OROP): The Government has implemented the One Rank One Pension (OROP) for Defence Forces Personnel.
- Facilitating servicemen to register and vote from their place of posting: Government has already introduced e-Postal Ballot System in October 2016 to facilitate participation of service voters. The Election Commission of India (ECI) directed to undertake the process of de-novo registration of Service Voters. As per ECI data, 13.37 lakh service voter requests from Armed Forces (Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard) have been registered with ECI.
- Army Battle Casualties Welfare Fund: A Fund namely, ‘Army Battle Casualties Welfare Fund’ has been set up w.e.f. 1.1.2016. Under this fund, assistance of Rs. 2.00 Lakh is provided to the army battle casualties which are fatal, 60% and above disability and battle casualties invalided out due to disability and Rs. 1.00 Lakh to disability less than 60%. This will be in addition to other admissible dues.
Some of the new initiatives taken during the last three years, as mentioned in reply to part (a), are long gestating by their nature and will bear fruit in the medium / long term.
This information was given by RakshaRajyaMantriDr.SubhashBhamre in a written reply to Shri P. Bhattacharya in Rajya Sabha today.
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Ministry of Defence
05-February, 2018 16:31 IST
New Weapons Procurement Policy
The new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) - 2016 has been implemented by the Government with effect from 01.04.2016. DPP-2016, inter alia, focuses on institutionalizing, streamlining, and simplifying procedure to give a boost to the ‘Make in India’ initiative of the Government of India, through Indigenous design, development and manufacturing of defence equipment, platforms & systems. The ‘Make’ procedure has been simplified to ensure increased participation of the Indian industry.
In order to promote indigenous design and development of defence equipment, DPP-2016 has introduced a new category for capital procurement viz. ‘Buy (Indian-IDDM)’ (Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured). While categorising a case, this category is accorded highest priority by the Buyer. Since promulgation of DPP-2016 (i.e. 01.04.2016), a total of 79 capital contracts for `1,28,077.41 Crore have been signed (upto 30.11.2017), out of which, 46 contracts amounting to `44,219.55 Crore are with Indian vendors and 33 contracts for `83,857.86 Crore are with Foreign vendors. Further, the policy on Strategic Partnerships in the Defence Sector was also finalised by the Government in 2017 and promulgated on 31.05.2017 as Chapter-VII of DPP-2016 titled as “Revitalising Defence Industrial Ecosystem through Strategic Partnerships”. The Chapter has also been uploaded on Ministry of Defence website:
https://www.mod.nic.in. The Policy on Strategic Partnerships is intended to institutionalise a transparent, objective and functional mechanism to encourage broader participation of the private sector, in addition to DPSUs / OFB, in the manufacture of defence platforms and equipment such as aircraft, submarines, helicopters and armoured vehicles.
This information was given by RakshaRajyaMantriDr.SubhashBhamre in a written reply to Shri P. Bhattacharya in Rajya Sabha today.
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