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A significant constituent of India are her Armed Forces, to defeat aggression, wage war, and for ceremonial functions. Misemployment erodes their morale, efficiency, integrity, loyalty, sense of duty, honour code, discipline and finally fighting capability. Uninterrupted misuse of Forces crumbles the edifice;

The New ‘Make’ Procedure: A Retrograde Step

Prior to the issuance of Defence Procurement Procedure – 2006 (DPP-2006), all proposals categorised by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) as ‘Make’ cases were handled by the Defence R&D Board (Def R&D Bd). The Department of Defence R&D had evolved a procedure that had adequate inbuilt flexibility for R&D application. Expenditure was debited to the [...]