NEW DELHI, Dec 18:
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said MoD will soon be coming out with a new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) as well as the Defence Procurement Manual (DPM), 2016. Addressing the Consultative Committee attached to his Ministry in New Delhi, the Defence Minister said the current DPP is under amendment and consideration of his Ministry after a Committee of experts headed by Dhirendra Singh had submitted its report.
The Committee was appointed to evolve a policy framework to facilitate ‘Make in India’ in defence manufacturing, align the policy evolved with DPP-2013 and suggest requisite amendments in DPP-2013 to remove bottlenecks in the procurement process and also simplify/rationalise various aspects of defence procurement. Along with this, the DPM is under the process of internal vetting and is expected to be finalised by end June, 2016.
The DPP has evolved to DPP-2013 through an iterative process since the first DPP in 2002. It encapsulates the experience gained in implementing the procurement process over the years, feedback from the stakeholders, that is User Services, Quality Control and Maintenance Agencies, Defence Finance, Administrative Wing and Industry, he said.
Taking part in the discussion, Members of Parliament suggested that Government should give incentives under the Buy(Indian) and Buy & Make(Indian) categories. They also said that PSUs should also be allowed to bid for Buy(Indian) category and that offsets should be in terms of overall requirements of users.
The MPs, who attended the meeting, included Pinaki Mishra, Prof Saugata Roy, Prof A Seetaram Naik, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Dr Mahendra Prasad, Mr T K Rangarajan, Mr Bhupender Yadav, and Mr Samsher Singh Manhas. (UNI)
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