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NEW DELHI: In a stinking slap on the Indian Air Force and Navy for their lapses compromising the nations security, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has slammed them for adversely impacting their operational preparedness and capability on 20 counts and questioned their faulty implementation of the offset policy to force foreign suppliers to invest in India.
The CAG report tabled in parliament on Thursday has taken the two forces to task for inordinate delays be they in procurement and integration of a radar warning receiver system or induction of the airfield lighting systems and integration of submarines and extra expenditure of Rs 87.52 crore for the Air Force delaying conclusion of a contract.
The government auditor is much more critical of the Indian Army on several counts, including it declaring a large quantity of the indigenous ammunition worth Rs 408.06 crore as unserviceable without investigation and analysis to determine the cause of failure and going for import of ammunition costing Rs 278.88 crore.
Another lot of ammunition worth Rs 168.75 crore was stopped from being imported on the audit's intervention as despite holding surplus stock, the Defence Ministry had given an "in principle" approval for import on the basis of the requirements projected by the Director General Ordnance Services.
The auditor also noted ammunition worth Rs 6.04 crore produced by the ordnance factory at Khamaria proved unserviceable and caused accidents in the army depots and unit during normal handling while five ordnance factories issued sub-standard ammunition valued at
Rs 180.67 crore to the Home Ministry and central and state police forces
Construction of sub-standard bunkers, delay in production of rockets for the rocket launching system, non-commissioning of a costly machine by the heavy vehicle factory at Avadi, loss of Rs 4.64 crore in manufacturing detonators with vintage components at Khadki, and unfruitful expenditure of Rs 13.48 crore in developing the modular charge system for the field guns are some other cases attracting the CAG's stricture.
It noted that even after an expenditure of Rs 521 crore and delay of over seven years, IAF failed to derive the intended benefit of a state of art RWR (radar warning receiver) system on different aircraft as only 73 of the total 336 systems have been so far integrated and even their performance is largely unsatisfactory.
For security reasons, the CAG did not identify two strategic airfields where it found deficient planning and execution of works in installation of an airfield lighting system adversely hit the operational capabilities of IAF. It also questioned the delay of over a decade in the commissioning of systems on four submarines of the Indian Navy costing Rs 167.64 crore as only two systems could be installed as late as in 2011.
The CAG has also slammed the Indian Navy for incorrect procurement of two navigation computers costing Rs 2.28 crore and for not mentioning the correct part number and the delay of three years in creating a critical test facility resulting in extra expenditure of Rs 1.65 crore. It has also noted the avoidable expenditure in delayed procurement of naval equipment for the Dornier aircraft impacting the Indian Navy's capabilities for over five years.
Some other serious lapses attracting the CAG strictures relate to failure of the Southern Command headquarters to safeguard the defence land in from commercial exploitation by a builder in Pune, unauthorised use of defence building by the Army Public School in Pune and irregular posting of nine army officers to run the professional institutes of the Army Welfare Education Society and the unauthorised construction of hotels on the defence land at Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh as also at Barrackpore Cantonment.
Oheraldo Goa's complete online news edition :: CAG-slams-Air-Force-Navy-on-20-counts
The CAG report tabled in parliament on Thursday has taken the two forces to task for inordinate delays be they in procurement and integration of a radar warning receiver system or induction of the airfield lighting systems and integration of submarines and extra expenditure of Rs 87.52 crore for the Air Force delaying conclusion of a contract.
The government auditor is much more critical of the Indian Army on several counts, including it declaring a large quantity of the indigenous ammunition worth Rs 408.06 crore as unserviceable without investigation and analysis to determine the cause of failure and going for import of ammunition costing Rs 278.88 crore.
Another lot of ammunition worth Rs 168.75 crore was stopped from being imported on the audit's intervention as despite holding surplus stock, the Defence Ministry had given an "in principle" approval for import on the basis of the requirements projected by the Director General Ordnance Services.
The auditor also noted ammunition worth Rs 6.04 crore produced by the ordnance factory at Khamaria proved unserviceable and caused accidents in the army depots and unit during normal handling while five ordnance factories issued sub-standard ammunition valued at
Rs 180.67 crore to the Home Ministry and central and state police forces
Construction of sub-standard bunkers, delay in production of rockets for the rocket launching system, non-commissioning of a costly machine by the heavy vehicle factory at Avadi, loss of Rs 4.64 crore in manufacturing detonators with vintage components at Khadki, and unfruitful expenditure of Rs 13.48 crore in developing the modular charge system for the field guns are some other cases attracting the CAG's stricture.
It noted that even after an expenditure of Rs 521 crore and delay of over seven years, IAF failed to derive the intended benefit of a state of art RWR (radar warning receiver) system on different aircraft as only 73 of the total 336 systems have been so far integrated and even their performance is largely unsatisfactory.
For security reasons, the CAG did not identify two strategic airfields where it found deficient planning and execution of works in installation of an airfield lighting system adversely hit the operational capabilities of IAF. It also questioned the delay of over a decade in the commissioning of systems on four submarines of the Indian Navy costing Rs 167.64 crore as only two systems could be installed as late as in 2011.
The CAG has also slammed the Indian Navy for incorrect procurement of two navigation computers costing Rs 2.28 crore and for not mentioning the correct part number and the delay of three years in creating a critical test facility resulting in extra expenditure of Rs 1.65 crore. It has also noted the avoidable expenditure in delayed procurement of naval equipment for the Dornier aircraft impacting the Indian Navy's capabilities for over five years.
Some other serious lapses attracting the CAG strictures relate to failure of the Southern Command headquarters to safeguard the defence land in from commercial exploitation by a builder in Pune, unauthorised use of defence building by the Army Public School in Pune and irregular posting of nine army officers to run the professional institutes of the Army Welfare Education Society and the unauthorised construction of hotels on the defence land at Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh as also at Barrackpore Cantonment.
Oheraldo Goa's complete online news edition :: CAG-slams-Air-Force-Navy-on-20-counts
