NEW DELHI: Army Chief General Bipin Rawat today strongly pitched for fast-tracking procurement of defence systems to enhance India’s military capability and said armed forces must remain ready for warfare along the borders.
General Rawat also said adequate focus must be on ensuring that “trial procedure” for procurement of military equipment does not linger on for too long, in an indication of his unhappiness over the delay in modernisation of armed forces.
In his address at a conference on military communication, the army chief said high-tech products must be acquired for the armed forces on a “fast-track” mode so they do not become obsolete on procurement.
“Whatever we have to induct must be done through fast-track procedures as technology becomes obsolete very soon.
“It is important that we are able identify the correct type of technology and equipment that is to be inducted into the armed forces. We have to ensure that the trial procedures do not linger for long,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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