Lok Sabha Question No. 4253 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-11
Subject: Make in India Initiative
Ministry: DEFENCE
Asked by: RAGHAV LAKHANPAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE PRODUCTION

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4253

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 11 TH  AUGUST, 2017

## MAKE IN INDIA INITIATIVE

4253.  SHRI  RAGHAV LAKHANPAL:

Will the Minister of DEFENCE j{kk ea=h be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has made any plan to include persons from Indian Army in 'Make in India' initiative which is being widely promoted and appreciated throughout the country;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  including  the  schemes  formulated  for  the  defence personnel in this regard; and
- (c) if  not,  the  reasons  for  not  including  the  end  users  in  development  of  ideas  and innovations under the 'Make in India' initiative?

## A    N    S    W    E    R

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

र  ा रा य मं ी

(a) to (c): A statement is attached.

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(DR. SUBHASH BHAMRE)

(डा. सुभाष भामरे)

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4253 FOR ANSWER ON 11.8.2017

Defence  sector    being  a  User  driven  sector,  Defence  Forces  are  actively involved  in  various  policies  &  procedures  related  to  procurement,  indigenous design, development & manufacture of defence equipment, co-development & coproduction with foreign OEMs, thus contributing towards 'Make in India' . Some of the major areas, where defence personnel are involved, are listed below: (i)  'Make Procedure': 'Make' procedure as given out at Chapter-III of Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)-2016, envisages involvement of Defence personnel  at  various  stages  of  development  of  a  defence  equipment.  The 'Make' projects are identified through a consultative process with involvement of  members from  Services  Head Quarters (SHQs).  Project  Management  Unit (PMU)  headed  by  Service  officer,  established  at  SHQs,  is  responsible  for monitoring  the  implementation  of  'Make'  projects  of  respective  SHQ.  The Integrated  Project  Management  Team  (IPMT)  mandated  to  steer  the  Make project, is also headed by Service Officer. (ii) Technology  Development  Fund  (TDF)  Scheme:  TDF  scheme  launched  by the  Government  aims  at  funding  the  development  of  defence  and  dual  use technologies that are currently not available with the Indian defence industry, or have not been developed so far, thus creating an Eco-system for enhancing cutting  edge  technology  capability  for  Defence  application.  The  scheme envisages  constitution  of  Empowered  Committee  and  Technical  Committee with  representation  from  Armed  Forces  as  members,  which  are  involved  in identification of technologies, Project Monitoring & Mentoring activities. (iii) 'Buy & Make (Indian)' and 'Buy & Make' Categories of Capital Acquisition: 'Buy & Make (Indian)' and 'Buy & Make' categories of capital acquisition under DPP,  envisage  tie-up  between  Indian  Vendor/  Indian  Production  Agency  & foreign  OEM,  for  indigenous  production  of  defence  equipment  involving Transfer  of  Technology  (ToT)  of  critical  technologies  to  promote  'Make  in India'.  The Defence Personnel are engaged at various stages of procurement to progress the projects categorized under these categories. (iv) Army Design Bureau (ADB):  SHQ (Army) has established an Army Design Bureau (ADB) in August - 2016 as a single point coordination with Industry & Academia. The mandate of ADB, inter- alia is  to act as    a central repository of technical  know-how,  to  bring  forward  the  innovation  undertaken  by  field formation, to generate long-term research requirement for Indian Army etc. (v)   In addition, a large number of personnel from the Armed forces are posted in DRDO (Defence Research & Development Organisation) to provide impetus to design & development of projects of the Armed forces, thus contributing to indigenization process.

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