How can India Efficiently Restructure the Defense Procurement Procedure?

The Prime Minister Modi led government is revolutionizing India since its inception. A lot many reforms are being planned for the defense industry. As per a report, in the next 5-7 years, the India Navy, Air Force, and Army is expected to replace or buy military equipment worth $200 billion or more. A greater than 150 million youngsters will be of working age in these many years.

More of Domestic Investment than Foreign Aids

It is a good time now to create job opportunities in ammunition and security devices related manufacturing sector. This shall assist making the ‘Make in India’ program a success. Though foreign investors could help accelerate the economy in terms of FDI, the needs of the soldiers and the end users must be kept in consideration before initiating any concrete reforms.

·        Be it the design or investment, Indian businessmen and people should be invited than foreign investors. This will help national capital and employment possibilities to increase till next decade, according to defense market research. Focus must be on developing ammunition and armaments from the country land itself than depending on imports.

·         Loopholes in laws should be eliminated to form strong policy measures in domestic manufacturing. Efforts must be directed to prevent scams. As depicted in defense industry reports, the lowest bidder who meets all the requirements will be given military equipment contract. But, other bidders could be considered under special conditions.

Need of Quality Equipments and Strategic Planning

All the products must meet the conditions set by Services Qualitative Requirement, and bidding is to be accepted under guidelines of Request for Proposal. The Cabinet Committee of Security must overlook all the manufacturing bidding for the defense industry equipments. The Quality Based Selection body has to ensure that only highly efficient weapons are accepted.

·         Another alternative could be involvement of members from parliamentary standing committee belonging to major political parties, Indian Space Research Organization, and India’s Special Forces. They will aid in checking and remodeling the ammunitions or products on timely basis.

·        The field employees like retired or existing military, navy, air force technical staff could be assigned a major role in assuring efficacy of defense procurement laws.  The defense market research experts think the laws must beat around weightages of each sector of the industry for organized planning.

·         Though India has strategic partnerships with 20 or more countries regarding the defense sector, it needs to also have a backup plan in case of emergencies. The terrorist attacks in South Asia have increased past many years, as found in many defense industry reports. A growing need of security must be kept in mind before taking steps in reworking on existing strategies.