# National Academy of Defence Production

National Academy of Defence Production is an Indian training and development institute incorporated under Ordnance Factory Board. It imparts training to the Group-A gazetted officers recruited under Indian Ordnance Factories Service. The academy also offers Group-A officers serving in various ordnance factories a mid-career training program.

## History

The National Academy of Defence Production, erstwhile known as the Ordnance Factory Staff College, was established in 1978 with a sole purpose to impart training to the officers recruited under the Indian Ordnance Factories Service, a group A gazetted service under the Ministry of Defence of the government of India. Indian Ordnance Factories Service officers are responsible for the functioning of ordnance factories whose existence dates as far back 300 years.

## Programme

The institute conducts 64 weeks induction programme to the candidates (i.e. probationary officers) who are later deputed to Ordnance factories. It is quite a holistic training program that imparts basic skills needed among the newly recruited officers to run the various ordnance factories located all over the country. The program starts with introduction module followed by general administration and general management module.
The programme also includes attachments to:
* Various ordnance factories
* Visit to Ordnance Factory Board
* Defence Institute of Advanced Technology
* DRDO labs
* Visit to proof ranges – LPR Khamaria, CPE Itarsi, PXE Balasore
* Armed forces attachment
* Army attachment – visit to different army base camp such Amritsar, is carried out. The location of attachment changes every year.
* Navy attachment – Any one of location Kochi, Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam
* Air Force attachment
Officers are also taken to parliament attachment for one week and the program culminates by meeting with the President of India and Minister of Defence. This training program is in line with training programmes of various other civil services of government of India. The candidates are selected through Civil Services Examination and the Engineering Services Examination, conducted by Union Public Service Commission.
* Minister of State for Defence of India M M Pallam Raju with the Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) probationers at NADP Nagpur
* IOFS probationers calling on the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Manohar Parrikar
* Defence Minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman with the IOFS probationers at South Block
* IOFS probationary officers of the 2008 batch, with the President of India, Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan
* President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind with Probationers of Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) from National Academy of Defence Production at Rashtrapati Bhavan on November 13, 2017

## Facilities

The institute is well equipped with training facilities. It includes audio-video teaching aids, a fully computerized library and subscriptions to various periodicals relevant to the training programme. There is a 35-node LAN network inside campus for internet access. The exhibition center has a number of ammunition devices and defense technologies on display for the probationary officers. There is a yoga center and courts for various sports such as billiards, badminton, tennis, volleyball and table tennis. Various fests are organised by the probationers on a regular basis including sports meets with nearby academies like NADT (National Academy of Direct Taxes). There is a well-equipped gym, swimming pool, indoor badminton court, basketball court and a cricket ground as well. Blood donation camps, PT, self defence training for female officers and cultural programmes are organised regularly.