CRPF chief seeks better weapons from Indian defence firms

[thestringshredder]

Import of gadgets and weapons for the security forces is “not a happy situation” as foreign manufacturers do not meet Indian requirements in an optimal fashion, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director General Pranay Sahay said on Friday.

The CRPF chief also said that indigenous research and development done by local companies was “not up to the mark”.

“We have seen that the local industry has been unable to produce what the forces need. The gadgets and weapons are largely imported and this is not at all a happy situation”, he said at a conference organised by industry body PHDCCI.

Speaking on ‘Expectation of Counter-insurgency Forces from Industry’, the CRPF chief, whose about three-lakh personnel is the mainstay of counter-Maoist operations, said procurement of high-end gadgets like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and weaponry is being done from overseas which is a time consuming exercise and is “affecting operations”.

As the procurement requirements of the central security forces keep fluctuating, only second rung international companies participate and “we have to depend on indigenous organisations like DRDO, Ordnance factories and central public sector undertakings”.

“They (Indian firms and PSUs) have their own limitations. They cannot produce as much as we need”, he said.

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[wild_fire1979]

Seeking better weapons from Indian firms is like seeking a race horse from a mule trader!

 

[Tshering22]

Seeking better weapons from Indian firms is like seeking a race horse from a mule trader!

It is not that we cannot make good weapons. It is just that there is no will of the government for India to become self-reliant.

1- There is no accountability on a PSU

2- government bureaucrats who know jack about defence control defence manufacturing organizations.

Two most critical flaws in any system.

Otherwise tell me, even Russia has a government-owned defence manufacturing establishment; then how is it that they are so fast and we are not?

Because there is no consideration for national defence and indigenization of our defence.

 

[COLDHEARTED AVIATOR]

Says the chief of a force which imports everything from clothing to rucksack.

 

[hkdas]

It is not that we cannot make good weapons. It is just that there is no will of the government for India to become self-reliant.

1- There is no accountability on a PSU

2- government bureaucrats who know jack about defence control defence manufacturing organizations.

Two most critical flaws in any system.

Otherwise tell me, even Russia has a government-owned defence manufacturing establishment; then how is it that they are so fast and we are not?

Because there is no consideration for national defence and indigenization of our defence.

it is not like that. the problem is in the managing system, not on government. government encourages indigenous defence goods
but efficiency and management is not good at defence PSU.

 

[Tshering22]

it is not like that. the problem is in the managing system, not on government. government encourages indigenous defence goods
but efficiency and management is not good at defence PSU.

The end result is the same isn't it?

Billions of rupees of tax payers going waste.