ORDNANCE FACTORIES DAY

The Ordnance factories Day was observed on 18th March 2011 through a full page dvertisement . The Addl.DGOF & Mmber Mr.S.D.Dimri says that we would like to renew our pledge to serve our great nation with deep seense of commitment and make all our efforts to provide our valiant Armoured Forces the state of the art indigenous armaments and equipments. No one knows how many people taken this pledge in Ordnance Factories, including the Officers and Supervisory Staff and the Industrial Employees.
The journey of the Indian Ordnnce Factories started more than 200 years At Cossipore, Kolkotta. There are 18 factories at the Pre Independent India. S.The oldet one is ome are AFK (1872) OEF(1869),RFI(1901), GCF(1904). The Oldest is GSF,Cossipore(1802). At present there are 39 Ordnance Factories and 2 projects at Nalanda and Korwa near Lucknow. The value production in 1951 is 1.34 crores and in the finncial year is 11,000 crores.
As per Mr.DM Gupta ,Chairman and DGOF, they are going to spend 6,800 crores for for up gradade the existing factories. He says that OFB's annual procurement budget is 8,000 crores out of which 30% was for imported components. The turn over of these fatories would be 11,000 crores this fiscal year, which is 29% higher than the last year. They export the items to the rune of 50 crores to other countries.
Sri.AK Anthony, the Defence Minister says that this is an oppurnity to Ordnance fctories to increase the scale and flexibility of Production through innovation in developing state-of-the art products.He says that Ordnance factories must also keep in mind the changing requirements of the end users - our Armed forces. Further he says that Ordnance factories should acquire ltest technological knowhow and must strive to moderinise their infrastructures.The growth momentum needs to be sustainable over a longer period by offering timely and qualittively the best delivery to our Armed Forces.
LET US HOPE THAT THE OFB AUTHORITIES WILL REALISE THEIR MISTAKES FOR THEIR WEAKING POLICY OF THE MIDDLE SUPERVISORY STAFFS PROMOTIONAL AVENUES BY RESTORING THE DUMPED 4 GRADE STRUCTURE OF SUPERVISORY STAFF AND RESTARTING THE TRAINING SCHEMES OF ARTISAN,SUPERVISORY AND OFFICERS.