Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Shripad Naik has informed that Government has taken several initiatives to promote new and innovative defence production projects under ‘Make in India’ in recent times such as introduction of Buy (Indian-IDDM) category of capital acquisition, promulgation of separate ‘Make-II’ procedure, launch of iDEX (Innovations in Defence Excellence), launch of Technology Development Fund (TDF), etc.
In the last three financial years i.e. from 2016-17 to 2018-19, Government has accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) to 113 proposals, worth Rs. 2,39,074 crore approximately under ‘Buy (Indian-IDDM)’, Buy (Indian)’, ‘Buy and Make (Indian)’, ‘Strategic Partnership Model’ or ‘Make’ categories of capital procurement as per Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)- 2016, in which Request for Proposal (RFP) is issued only to Indian Vendors.
Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has not accorded any approval for any project for manufacture of small Arms & OFB has not conducted any company validation for manufacture of small Arms.