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In big boost for Army, Narendra Modi government clears procurement of critical weaponry for short in

You have 11 players to chose from a total of 1.3 billion whereas we only have 200 million to chose our 11 from. With that population you should easily always have had the best cricket team in the world and at least ALWAYS beatan us historically. You have done none of those things. You also have all the money in cricket, the best facilities and the backing of the icc. We have none of these things and we aren't even allow to play international cricket at home. Yet we still humiliated you in front of the whole of humanity even though we faced near impossible odds.

By the same Logic Pakistan should have much better record in Olympycs dont u think ?
Absurd Pakistani Logic.
 
Raw and army sent thousands of your ugly brethrens to jannah.and we are weak. In response to uri Mumbai remember APS, Baacha khan parchinar etc etc.we are practically burning your country.



Taking credit for American attempts at destabilizing Pakistan are you?.....So an army of nearly a million in Kashmir can barely control it and yet we are expected to believe the indians can destabilize the Pakistani mainland???????....lol:lol:.........Must be coming from the same source that claims india is more advanced than america...........:lol:

By the same Logic Pakistan should have much better record in Olympycs dont u think ?
Absurd Pakistani Logic.



They should but they don't. It's due to stupidity rather than genetics and race for us though. Pakistan can't get an adequate Olympic team together due to severe mismanagement but in places like England which has a Pakistani minority, Pakistanis like the boxer Amir Khan have represented England quite successfully at the Olympics. A sad indictment of institutions run by Pakistan.
 
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As the stand-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers continue at the Doklam plateau in Sikkim and the borders with Pakistan remains hot, India has quietly authorised the Indian Army to make emergency purchases of ammunition, stores, spares for several weapon platform worth thousands of crore so that the army is ready for a "short intense war", top sources told India Today.

Typically, the Indian military is required to be ready to fight a short intense war that could last between 10 to 15 days.

An internal audit of the Indian Army conducted after Uri brigade headquarters were stormed by terrorists last year that left 19 soldiers dead had revealed huge shortfall in critical shortfall of artillery ammunition, tanks shells, fuses and spares for weapons platforms.

In retaliation to the terror attack, special forces of the Indian Army, aided by the Indian Air Force, had crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and destroyed terror launch pads and Pakistan Army facilities.

An unknown number of terrorists waiting to cross over were killed in the raid.

The army identified 46 kinds of ammunition, spares for 10 weapons platforms like infantry combat vehicles and half-a-dozen mines of various kinds as critical for war fighting. These items can be purchased through the emergency purchase route.

NO CAP ON SPENDING

The executive order authorising the Vice Chief of Indian Army to make emergency purchases was issued recently. The delegation of financial powers shortens the long winded process and red-tape plagued process of procurement.

"Unlike previous process, there is no per-determined cap on the amount that can be spent. Rather, the limit to spending has been tied to the minimum stores, ammunition that must be in the reserve of the army at given time. This is big shift," a senior Ministry of Defence officer said.

After the internal audit of the Indian Army carried out by the office of the Master General Ordnance (MGO) revealed major gaps, the army was authorised to make emergency purchases till March 31, 2017 to plug the gaps.

These powers - to make emergency purchases bypassing the laid out process - now have been extended till further notice.

Earlier, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) too had highlighted severe shortfall of ammunition and spares. In a report placed before the Parliament in 2015, the CAG had observed: "while availability of authorised stock against War Wastage Reserve (WWR) to meet the expected duration of operation formed the basic criteria for ensuring the operational readiness of the Army, we found during the review that against the WWR of 40 (I) days, the availability of ammunition was only in 10 per cent of the total types of ammunition held (March 2013)."

It went on to note that "the acute shortage was a serious cause of concern directly impairing the operational readiness of the Army."
 

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