Lieutenant Gene. Amardep Singh Aujla, Master General Sustice (MGS), Indian Army, emphasizes the need to consider the industry as strategic allies and not only suppliers of the interactive session of the PHDCCI industry on Monday.
The Indian Army has suggested amendments to the Defense Acquisition Manual (DPM), under the review of the Ministry of Defense since 2021, to correct its inclination towards companies in the public defense sector (PSU) and guarantee the common level game field for private industry for the true realization of Aatmanirbharta in the military domain.
It has also come to bring the concept of ‘Emportionamiento ”in a certain bidding son so that bidders in a fray, who offer the same quality product, also obtain work if the numbers are high and the emerging company L1 has limited singhel, which takes care of the acquisition of revenue from the army, in a PHDS event of Commerce and Industry (phdcici) limited on Monday.
When heading to the interactive session of the PhDCCI industry on “Revenue requirements of the Indian Army,” Lieutenant General Aujla said: “The DPM has to be reviewed. We have bone during the last two years” and “we are pressing its comfort.
The MGS said that paragraph 2.4.8 of the DPM that deals with the acquisition of artillery factories and DPSU restricts the strength of not moving away from original equipment manufacturers (OEM).
For us, 80 percent of our goods are supplied by the DPSUS, he said about the acquisition of Army income. The annual expense of the MGS branch is a sum of ₹ 25000 million rupees to ₹ 30,000 million rupees, said the LT gene.
“We want a Level Playing Field. We Becouse we want to move. To move away .. to participatory and competitive tender. While the attempts are on, The Systems are Such That it takes time. and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and Ended Your requirements, “Aujla Stated, bring Glee to the faces of the industry representatives in the session.
User -driven market
In that context, he also observed that it has to be a market driven by the user and not a market driven by suppliers. This is how we look at things, he observed.
The army and private industry were on the same page as Vaibha Gupta, co -president of the PHDCCI and HLS Defense Committee, and the director of MKU LTD, based in Kanpur, also sought the release of DPM 2021 reviewed so that Dpsus and Private Fancy. “Only then can the sector align completely with the ambitions of Make In India, the strategic association and the IDDM framework,” he said in the Opening Directorate before the speech of Lieutenant General Aujla.
Gupta also marked that the DPM does not encourage the development of long -term suppliers of private actors, and has an L1 rigid acquisition system that gives priority to the cost over capacity.
He also noted that MSSMEs sacrifices the digital tools of predictive maintenance with updates are rarely prescribed, while obsolete DPSU solutions are preferred due to defined acquisition rules.
Referring to procedure friction, MKU LTD director emphasized that cumbersome documentation, inspection standards and delayed payments deter private investment in the defense sector.
Others who participated in the session included Major General HPS Hansi, the Additional Director MGS Branch, and his other Brigadier Bhupendra Rekhi and Brigadier Pradep Godara Brigadier.
Posted on April 21, 2025
