Really? Do we now start washing the dirty linen in public? Can you kindly explain why funds under Army Commander's Special Financial Powers are not utilised for better body armour?
Again.
Are you kidding me????
Any financial powers exercised by the Army Commander's Special Financial Powers comes only with the consent of the Integrated Financial Advisor or IFA appointed by GoI.
Army commanders have no power to use any of the said funds without the approval of the government.
And again the blame is back on the babus.
Example of a fact: IPEs scaled items to be held in stock ... serviceability of the same is pathetic as idiots open to see an effing canister and the equipment from its vacuum sealed pack!! Rendered useless. And this is the War stock.
Only 01 am I giving you right now ... really we will delve into arena where even I would rather not .. just to prove that I am right !
Again you just spouted rhetoric.
YOU DON"T KNOW THAT.
Where are all these baseless accusations coming from?
Please either give us a valid link or your point is moot.
Whose fault? Is it the MGO or someone else who is responsible for acceptance of equipment? What stops you to NOT accept a substandard- nonstandard equipment or something that is different from the bid parameters? Why is it difficult to rationalise and accept an equipment?
Again, the said equipment have to be deemed acceptable by the government not the army.
The army's job is to field tests and give reports to GoI rest of the finalization is the governments responsibility not the army's.
If the
GOVERNMENT DOESN'T APPROVE THE VENDORS WHAT IS LEFT TO ACCEPT?
Yes, a decision that took the babus a decade to implement and in that too they dilly-dalied.
My dear sir, it is the same excuse that army is losing its respect. Whose fault?
Why don't you refuse to undertake operations in Kashmir valley till 100% authorisation of body armour is made available?
Who stops the armed forces chiefs from refusing to fight without equipment? Even the CAPFs have X-95s now, as they refuse to accept INSAS!!!!! They have managed to get their Counter Insurgency allowance out of tax bracket whereas army pays tax on Siachen allowance also.
That is preposterous.
Army is in the eye of the storm, where every decisive battle and every terrorist activity takes place.
If the army refuse to undertake operations for a single day there will be pandemonium in the valley.
They are not paramilitary forces where you encounter adversity occasionally.
CAPFs can afford to wait it out Army can't.
It is similar to 3rd pay commission when the then chief refused NFU saying it will remove the charm of becoming a general in army ... and now armed forces are crying for NFU as your MES staff gets paid more than the Chief Engineer of Colonels rank and retires at 60 where as the Colonel retires at 54!!!!
What an effing joke!!!
BS.
Army was completely against the exclusion of armed forces in the NFU from the very inception of the NFU.
The chiefs never refused, they wanted a part of it, UPA never let them.
OROP happened because they were not being included from the very beginning.
In short Ministry of Defence "stops you from using funds".
These are sensitive issues where funds need to be in the army's control, you cannot take it just because it was unused for just a year. It takes time to finalize with vendors and the Government cannot just take army's money to balance its books or hold the army hostage to deadlines. Its the country's security at stake.
Read your own links you'll know the answer.
"The revelation by Defence Minister Mohan Parrikar on 4 March that he discovered India was paying the US Department of Defence for new weaponry, even though $3 billion which had earlier remitted was lying forgotten in a Pentagon account is not a small matter. Ministry of Defence had reportedly put the said money in a Pentagon account for weaponry that was to be bought under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)."
"A former Vice Chief of the Army while in service was told by his friend in Defence (Finance) that they are required to submit a quarterly report from the very beginning of the financial year (FY) as to how much of the defence funds they would be able to surrender at the end of the FY. That is why crores of rupees is surrendered year after year from the Defence Budget while the forces are holding equipment that is 50 percent obsolete. While there was big furore over Gen VK Singh’s, then Army Chief to prime minister Manmohan Singh on criticalities in the Army, public would be unaware that such letters have been written by many Service Chiefs including Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee in the past. Yet despite criticalities, year after year crores of rupees from the defence allocations are surrendered every year. Isn’t it criminal that these $3 billion were lying with the US while our forces were starved for equipment? Besides, FMS route being the fastest, how could this amount be ‘forgotten’, or was this by design?"
