Indian Army authorized to store war stocks for 15 days intense war from earlier 10 days level keeping in mind two-front war scenario. Army expected to spend 50000 crores for making necessary purchases. Major step amid ongoing tension with China.
The Indian army is now empowered to prepare a stock of arms & ammunition for a 15-days full-scale war instead of 10 days. Using emergency procurement powers, the Indian Army is going to spend more than ₹50,000 crores in the next 2 months.
The 13-lakh strong Army is now slowly but steadily building its ammunition stocks ranging from rockets and missiles to high-caliber tank and artillery shells to ensure it can comfortably fight a full-blown war for over 10 days, with the eventual aim to have adequate stockpiles in place to last 40 days.
Defense Ministry sources say all the different types of ammunition for the Army will be built up to “10(I) levels”, which mean adequate stocks to undertake 10 days of “intensive” full-spectrum fighting, by 2022-2023, as per the earlier assessment reported by Times of India.
The MoD is also in the process of contracting the domestic private sector to manufacture with foreign collaboration eight different types of tank, artillery, and infantry ammunition worth around Rs 1,700 crore per year for a decade from 2022-2023 onwards.
Over the last several years, at least since 2012, TOI has repeatedly reported the Army was fast running out of ammunition, with tanks and air defense units, artillery batteries and infantry soldiers all facing the crunch under the hugely depleted war wastage reserves (WWR). Successive parliamentary and CAG reports have also underscored the critical operational deficiency.
Source: Social Media Sources, Times of India, Wikipedia
