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150761
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112006
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146631
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March 2016 was an eventful month for the Indian Air Force (IAF) on many counts. The Indian defence forces were still recovering from the lower than expected increase in the defence allocation in Budget 2016-2017. In fact, the Finance Minister for the first time did not even mention the allocation for defence in his speech in the Parliament. With dithering modernisation, the capital fund allotments were considered rather meagre. The IAF’s Exercise Iron-Fist 2016 on March 18 was the largest ever show of air power. In spite a great event, there were a few clearly visible weapons misses that were critically talked about.
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121145
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114277
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2012.
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It has been a long time since the first set of instructions on defence procurement was issued in 1992. Since then, however, there have been several refinements and additions, based on the feedback from the stakeholders and the experience of the Defence Ministry itself, culminating in the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2011. This is presently under review and it would be reasonable to expect that the changes being contemplated will result in further refinement of the procedure and address some of the concerns expressed from time to time. There is also a view that all this effort may go waste once the Public Procurement Bill, presently before Parliament, is enacted, as the law would also apply to defence-related procurements. The apprehension seems unwarranted. The fundamental principles underlying the DPP are not materially different from what is envisaged in the proposed law on public procurement, but the DPP contains detailed instructions and formats of various documents peculiar to defence procurements. Therefore, it is quite likely that the DPP would survive, in some form or the other, the enactment of law on public procurement. Some further changes might be necessary to bring it in sync with the provisions of the new law, but these changes are unlikely to bring about any material change in the overall procedure for capital procurements which has developed over the years. The process of refining the procedure must, therefore, continue. It is in this context that this article highlights some of the issues that have so far not received enough attention or have not been perceived as problem areas meriting attention.
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106861
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112032
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154570
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119311
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112001
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130090
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142684
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In spite of spending close to Rs 500,000 crore on capital acquisitions between 2002–03 and 2014–15, the Indian Armed Forces continue to suffer from a chronic shortage of equipment and ammunition, low levels of serviceability of equipment already in service, and a heavy dependence on imports. The procurement programmes keep getting stalled or take inordinately long to fructify. There are several reasons for this morass; the primary ones being disjointed defence planning, limited budgetary support for modernisation of the armed forces, procedural complexities, and bureaucratic indolence. Of these, the factor that receives the greatest attention is the procedural complexity besetting defence procurements. The Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) was first promulgated in 2002 and has been revised several times thereafter by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), in consultation with the users and the industry, but the problems, whether real or perceived, have persisted. More than a year into its five-year term, the present government set up a Committee of Experts (CoE) to address this problem holistically, against the backdrop of its ‘Make in India’ drive. This article presents a perspective on the report of the Committee and ends with a broad approach for phased implementation of the acceptable recommendations of the Committee.
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128676
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129745
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122160
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129950
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129721
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104711
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ID:
128677
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