After the border standoff between Indian and Chinese forces in May last year, India’s official “Economic Survey 2020-21” report noted that the Indian military completed at least 180 billion rupees of procurement through fast-tracking in response to urgent needs.
In addition, the report, which was submitted to the lower house of parliament by India’s finance ministry on 29 May, said the trend of underutilization of the defense budget has been reversed since fiscal year 2016 (April 2016 to March 2017).
The Hindu reported on May 30 that the Indian military has made a series of purchases in response to urgent needs since the outbreak of the standoff and conflict between Indian and Chinese forces in eastern Ladakh in May last year.
Indian Army Chief Manoj Mukund Naravane said in a statement on Army Day 15 that 38 deals worth about Rs. 50 billion were completed last year through emergency and fast track, and purchases worth Rs. 130 billion were also completed.
As the standoff between Chinese and Indian troops in eastern Ladakh has not been resolved after entering winter, the Indian military urgently procured from the United States of America warm winter clothing, Food, lubricants, spare parts, medical supplies and ammunition and other logistical supplies in the high altitude cold winter, and also urgently procured high altitude tents and fuel for local border guard forces.
In addition, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his emergency powers last July to authorize the Air Force to urgently procure a batch of medium-range air-to-ground missiles (HAMMER, Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range) from France that can attack any bunker, in order to increase the Rafale’s (Rafale) air-to-ground missile range. (HAMMER, Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range) to increase the Rafale’s ground attack capability.
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