Arming the Defence Forces

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The aim of Defence Procurement and Production is to ensure quality, timeliness and value for money in provision of defence equipment to the Armed Forces. The existing Defence Procurement Procedures have been operative since 1992, with only marginal updates or changes. These pertain to two processes – ‘acquisitions’ on the capital account and ‘purchases’ on the revenue account. Recently, new system and broad structures have been announced. However, the operating procedures have not been defined; these would necessarily need to be set out and modernized. ‘Indigenisation and Self Reliance’ have been the cardinal goals of India’s policy of fulfilling Defence requirements. To be self-sufficient, a country must not only have the material resources but also the expertise to undertake design and development. Do we have the right strategy for our defence R & D? Are our defence production agencies in the public sector functioning in the correct perspective? Is the private sector participation adequate? India’s military expenditure in 1995 was $8 billion, whereas even a small country like Taiwan spent $13 billion in the same period. India’s defence budget, considering its size and security concerns, is one of the lowest. We need to carry out budgetary reforms. Our procurement apparatus, primarily dependent on imports, is both inadequate and in need of streamlining and modernization.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lt. Gen. Chandra Shekhar

Lieutenant General Chandra Shekhar, PVSM, AVSM (Retired) is a former Vice Chief of the Army Staff. A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and the National Defence College, New Delhi, he has done the Landing Forces Staff Planning Course from the Naval Amphibious Base, California, USA. He has held a number of Instructional and Staff appointments, the important ones being that of an Instructor at the Defence Services Staff College, brigade commander of an infantry brigade and the Parachute Brigade, and General Officer Commanding (GOC) of an infantry division in the deserts and a strike corps. He has been Chief of Staff of a corps in Jammu and Kashmir and subsequently Chief of Staff at Headquarters Western Command. He held the post of Army Commander, Central Command before he got posted as Vice Chief of the Army Staff. He has been involved in review of procurement procedures and policies at the Army Headquarters. He was awarded the Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa chair by the United Service Institution of India for the year 2002-2003 to carry out research on “Modernisation and Streamlining of Defence Procurement Procedures and Production Systems”.

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Title
Arming the Defence Forces
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8170491770
Length
138p., Figures; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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