without mentioning to which period the report belongs to, it is pretty useless article. This info was given in parliament by manohar parrikar almost a year back. Much has happened since then, including budget for emergency ammo purchases , capacity building at OFB and allowing some of the critical ammo to be manufactured by Pvt sector.
This looks like a new report sir, unveiled today in Parliament. See text in bold. So our procurement process is completely Fubar'd How can we fix it?
In a scathing report, which was tabled in the Parliament
today, the CAG also criticised the OFB for inadequate quality of ammunition supplied to the Army since March 2013.
“Shortfall in meeting the production target by OFB continued. Further, majority of the procurement cases from other than OFB which were initiated by Army headquarters during 2009-13
were pending as of January 2017,” the CAG said in the report.
Lack of ammunition stocks is
severely affecting training of the Indian Army. The CAG has observed because of shortage of ammunition, the Army Head Quarters had imposed
"restriction" on training. It says in 2016, of the 24 types of ammunition required for training only three were available for more than five days for training activity. And, the availability of as much as 88 per cent of ammunition was far below requirement. "Majority of training ammunition - 77 to 88 per cent - remained critical i.e. less than five day".
Concerned by huge shortfall of ammunition, the Government
recently gave the vice-chief of Army Staff powers to make to emergency purchases.
Sources told India Today that the Indian Army has identified 46 types of ammunition, about half dozen types of mines and 10 weapon systems as extremely critical. "These can now be purchased immediately bypassing the long winded procurement procedure," a senior officer said.
