MILBUS

Should Indian Aarmed Forces also have a MILBUS.


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Haldilal

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Ya Nibbiars many of here have little knowledge of what is a Milbus. And generally associate it with PAF. Many consider that only PAF has Milbus. But actually many militaries have MILBUS and with different model and many Milbus are even successful and Profitable. There are many types of Milbus model. Here are some in brief :

Standard Milbus : In this type of model the military controls many firms in different industry which also include non military sectors in order to support its social and military programmes. They have almost no civilian control. eg : Pak Milbus.

Stakeholder Milbus : In this type of Milbus the personnels subscribe share of the Military foundation. Be in part percentage of military salary. And will get monthly or one time return in terms of Funds or pension or additional pension. I.e. Malaysian Milbus Model.

Civilian controlled Milbus : In this type of Milbus a firms which created with a aim of creating profits in both Civilian and defence sectors to benifit its troops through Social programmes. But are under a civilian control. I.e. Western Milbus.

Stake holding Milbus : In this type of Milbus military foundation holds stake in both Civilan and Military sectors firms in order to generate profitable and are under a nominal civilan Overbody. I.e. Turkish Milbus.

Military Milbus : In this type of Milbus model a military foundation can hold its stake on in defence sectors or allied sectors.

Corporate Milbus : In this type of model a psu is created in order to service requirement be it in both civilan and defence sectors. Can be owned completely by the goverment or partially floated on a public stock exchange. I.e. Burmese Milbus.
 

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This is exactly what Major Gaurav Arya discussed about in one of his video that Pak army is able to generate huge revenue (~$8 billion per yr) from the business they run in the country. This offset a great deal of expenditure done on Salary and non weaponry capex. Though cant say if they are able to spend this money cleanly or it just goes in bank of high rank officers.
Indian Army spends a big part of budgets on salaries and pension and on maintaining the canteens.
I am definitely in favor of Milbus so that we can offset the big expenditure on things other than weapons.
 

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This is exactly what Major Gaurav Arya discussed about in one of his video that Pak army is able to generate huge revenue (~$8 billion per yr) from the business they run in the country. This offset a great deal of expenditure done on Salary and non weaponry capex. Though cant say if they are able to spend this money cleanly or it just goes in bank of high rank officers.
Indian Army spends a big part of budgets on salaries and pension and on maintaining the canteens.
I am definitely in favor of Milbus so that we can offset the big expenditure on things other than weapons.
Even if we transfered the profits from the DPSUs and zero the GST on the defence equipment's. It will save us a great amount of money.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars this may sound rash but need to transfer the Provident funds and pension to Milbus. Can't carry this old of pension anymore and also increase the retirement from current level to the same as other government department's. Need to be more cautious in this things.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars kab tak pension ka Bojja le ke ghomage re. Have to offload it's.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars this may sound rash but need to transfer the Provident funds and pension to Milbus. Can't carry this old of pension anymore and also increase the retirement from current level to the same as other government department's. Need to be more cautious in this things.
The retirement procedure need to be reworked. Quite too many personnel retire from Army quite early and still takes in Huge sum in pensions for whole life.
I don't have any issue with Pensions but serve your whole duration in Army then.
Also Pensions and Salaries needs to be offset from MILBUS. Army needs to find areas where they can run some business and earn good money.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars many members asked how turkey with just 25 billions dollar MoD budget is able to maintain such Force's. Simple the Milbus provide them almost 12 billion dollars annually. That offsets the higher salaries and other expenditure's.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars create for profit firms like the US Army and Air Force Base exchange. Where the profits can be utilized to keep the cantonment boards. Make the DPSU profits percentage back to the MoD budget's.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars create a insurance firms which can service and provide services to the veterans. In turns the profits can be back utilized. And the current MoD insurance plans are worse.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars the BRO's expertise can be used as a consultant's which can generate significant earning's.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars the BRO's expertise can be used as a consultant's which can generate significant earning's.
From taking Singapore Metro system as consultant for Delhi Metro construction to now DMRC being acting as consultant for Metro systems around the world, BRO can also take projects and contracts in other countries and can earn some good money.
 

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From taking Singapore Metro system as consultant for Delhi Metro construction to now DMRC being acting as consultant for Metro systems around the world, BRO can also take projects and contracts in other countries and can earn some good money.
Ya'll Nibbiars BRO already works in many countries but for non profits. If a commercial arm is created if retired engineers them it can generate multi million dollars monthly firm's. And will provide jobs for the retired engineer's.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars Malaysia also has a similar organization which brings sigificant revenue to the pension and social schemes for the Armed Force's. Evem some European countries has similar type of set up's.
 

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Ya'll Nibbiars the profits generated by the DPSU's goes in the pockets of the Babus and politicians or else the social schemes which hardly has any economics return's and this can be utilized to offset the Social benefit's for the Armed force's.
 

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