From weapons to missiles and drones to specialist autos, the military is wanting to buy navy {hardware} from the home defence trade by the emergency procurement route to spice up its operational readiness, officers conversant in the matter mentioned on Sunday.
The military could make such purchases by invoking its emergency monetary powers to purchase tools value ₹300 crore offered it may be inducted inside a 12 months to fulfill pressing necessities, mentioned one of many officers cited above.
The tools military is buying contains weapons, missiles, drones, counter-drone methods, loitering munition, communication and optical methods, specialist autos and engineering tools.
“The method might be primarily based on compressed timelines, whereby the procurement window might be open to Indian Trade for six months, and the trade could be anticipated to ship tools inside one 12 months of signing the contract. Procurement instances might be primarily based on open tender enquiry,” the Indian Military mentioned on Twitter.
It added that this was consistent with its dedication to battle future wars with Indigenous options.
The federal government has taken a number of steps to advertise self-reliance within the defence sector lately, together with banning the import of main weapons, platforms, sub-systems and elements, making a separate finances for getting navy {hardware} from the native trade and earmarking analysis and growth finances for the non-public trade and start-ups.
The newest push by the military for emergency procurement comes at a time when India and China have been locked in a lingering border standoff within the Ladakh sector since Could 2020.
Regardless of 4 rounds of disengagement from Galwan Valley, Pangong Tso, Gogra (PP-17A) and Sizzling Springs (PP-15), the 2 armies nonetheless have round 60,000 troops every and superior weaponry deployed within the Ladakh theatre.
Even after 16 rounds of navy talks held thus far, issues at Depsang within the Daulet Beg Oldi sector and Charding Nullah Junction (CNJ) within the Demchok sector are nonetheless on the negotiating desk.
