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| Army chief, top generals wasted cro |
| Army chief, top generals wasted crores, shows defence ministry audit
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| INDIA
, 23-October-2012
11:58:0 AM |
| Army chief General Bikram Singh, his predecessor General VK Singh and other top generals wasted over Rs. 100 crore of public money in just two years, an internal audit of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed.
Defence Minister AK Antony, taking a grim view of the profligacy, has come down hard and has ordered that spending of the commanders must now be cleared by the MoD.
Not just has the money been wasted, but the audit also finds that guidelines to buy foreign equipment have repeatedly been disregarded, and equipment rejected by one part of the Army has been bought by another
In one example that goes beyond just the wastage of money, the auditor points to Chinese-origin communications equipment which was bought by the Generals, when they were commanders-in-charge of their regions, armed with special financial powers to make emergency purchases. In this case, the auditor found that even the Chinese-origin equipment was bought from agents rather than directly from the manufacturer as required, and despite the fact that similar Indian equipment would have been cheaper.
"There is an apprehension that the stores have actually been purchased from the grey market and perhaps are of Chinese origin," the report says.
Chinese-made communication equipment has been found to be embedded with malignant software. In a few cases detected in the past, it was found that Chinese and other foreign security agencies were exploiting these chinks in critical equipment to gather secret information.
The Military Intelligence (MI) and the Director General of Information Services have issued exhaustive guidelines on equipment purchase and checks. The audit, however, found these have been completely violated. "This would be a major security risk apart from being a serious financial irregularity," the auditors observe.
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