Army Chief for a revolution in bureaucratic affairs
The Hindu
Procurement process has not kept pace with requirements of time, he says
Army Chief Gen. Manoj Naravane on Tuesday said the procurement process had not kept pace with the requirements of time. Many procedural lacunae have crept into the acquisition process due to “overbearing nature of our rules and regulations leading a zero error syndrome”, he noted and stressed the need for a “revolution in bureaucratic affairs.” “The needs of information era warfare cannot be hamstrung by the procedures of the industrial age. The need of the hour is to see a metamorphosis here too, perhaps even doing away with the L1 [lowest bidder] vendor altogether. For real transformation to take place, we require a revolution in bureaucratic affairs,” he stated at a webinar at the United Service Institution of India. The Army had brought about major structural changes by aligning both the revenue and capital routes of procurement under the Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Capability Development and Sustenance), he remarked.More Related News