Tuesday, April 5, 2011

ARVs Production for Indian Army

It seems that the Indian Army receing Armoured Recovery Vehicles (ARVs) from BEML from 1998 onwards. For the last 14 years, they received 352 vehicles at the cost of US $ 350 millions with out implementing the 50% indeginous clause. This issue was raised by Mr.Pinaki Mishra, MP of BJD and warned the government about the serious irregularities. He says that in the possible order worth of 1200 crore for supply of 204 vehicles likely to be placed by the MOD with BEML.
He warned the government that he is going to take up this issue in coming lok sabha, and said that these Defence PSUs are acting as an agents to the foreign countrties companies, and claiming their supplies are indian products.(refer the The Deccan Chronical,Hyderabad edition dated 3-4-2011). He claims that this BEML which has a technology transfer agreement with Polish Company M/s Bumar.He accused BEML that this PSU is acting like as an agent for Bumar and importing the ARVs for the Indian Army from Poland with hardly any indigenisation.
It is understood that this vehicle is manufactured as a proto type vehicle at Heavy Vehicles Factory ,Avadi in the past and given to Army for trials. It seem that the Army might have given orders for production/procurement of the vehicles to the private parties, with or with out the knowledge of ordnance factories.
Some of the ordnance factory employees say that they are not having enough work load in their factories and the OFB officials are not interested to take load from MOD and the concerned Federations and Associations are also not worried about the Work Load and the Production and Productivity at OFactories. On seeing the conditions of these ordnance factories, it is cler that the MOD is not interested to encourage these factories and only working for privitisation direction.
Here it is requested that the Officers and the Union leaders has to act to save their factories by working hard and save their factories through their hard work and involvement in production and productivity.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

GREETINGS

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS TELUGU NEW YEAR (UGADI).
M.S.HARI