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Defence Ministry to come out with new DPP, DPM 2016: Manohar Parrikar

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that Ministry of Defence will soon be coming out with a new Defence Procurement Procedure, DPP, as well as the Defence Procurement Manual, DPM, 2016. Addressing the Consultative Committee of his Ministry in New Delhi, Mr Parrikar said that the current Defence Procurement Procedure is under amendment and is under the consideration of his Ministry after a committee of experts headed by Dhirendra Singh had submitted its report. The committee was appointed to evolve a policy framework to facilitate Make in India in defence manufacturing and to remove bottlenecks in the procurement process.<br/><br/>Taking part in the discussion, Members of Parliament suggested that Government should give incentives under the Buy Indian and Buy and Make Indian categories. They also said that PSUs should also be allowed to bid for Buy Indian category and that offsets should be in terms of overall requirements of users.

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