Audit Reports
Defence
Report No. 24 of 2011 - 12 Union Government (Defence Services) Army and Ordnance Factories
Overview
Scrutiny of staff projects undertaken by ARDE during last 15 years, revealed that out of 46 closed Staff projects, only 13 underwent production while in the remaining either no production was required or claims of success could not be substantiated. Many of the projects failed as these were taken up without firming up the General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQR) or frequent changes in Qualitative Requirements were made by the users. Excessive time overrun and non-acceptance of the final output by the users also led to closure of the projects. In many cases, delays and failures led to dependence on imports.
Failure of the Ministry of Defence and Army in defining the requirement of specific gun system had deprived its Artillery, for over a decade, of guns of latest technology, which are in service world over. The abnormal delay in procurement of the state-of-the-art technology gun replacing the existing guns of obsolete technology of 1970, had not only impacted the operational preparedness of the Army but also resulted in substantial cost overrun.
Advance payment of RS 100.18 crore had been made to the United States Government (USG) between March 2008 and October 2009 to establish Mini Depot for repair of 12 Weapon Locating Radars (WLRs) by September 2010. No progress had been made towards setting up of repair facility by due date. Consequently, a number of WLR remained non-functional for want of repairs. Besides, incorrect analysis of requirement of support equipments for the WLRs led to unwanted procurement of twelve Trailers at a cost of RS 2.19 crore.
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- Preface
- Overview
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Ministry of Defence
- Chapter 3 – Army
- Chapter 4 – Works and Military Engineer Services
- Chapter 5 - Border Roads Organisation
- Chapter 6 – Defence Research and Development Organisation
- Chapter 7 – Project Management in Armament Research and Development Establishment
- Chapter 8 – Factory Organisation
- Annexures