Still clearing the earlier mess: Defence Minister Parrikar
December 14, 2016 21:16
Hitting out at his predecessors, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said he is still "still clearing the earlier mess" and has initiated a series of steps in areas like defence procurement, which will start yielding results from next year.
The Defence Procurement Manual would soon be changed to address the concerns raised by private players, but added that even they should rope in Medium and Small scale industries while carrying out their work, he said.
Speaking about the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, Parrikar said before the aircraft was finally introduced in the Indian Air Force, everyone was working in "silos" and he had to hold a series of meetings to break that.
He said, now the DRDO has been mandated to rope in private sector industry for development. Parrikar also questioned about the acquisition of aircraft done in the past without technology transfers and alleged there were "many errors, mistakes and casualness".
He said, efforts taken to resolve these issues will start showing up by next year. "Slowly these issues are getting sorted out. Next year 2017, exercise has been carried out, will start yielding results," he said.
Parrikar was speaking at an ASSOCHAM seminar on 'Defence Production: Self Reliance and Beyond'.
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