<span id="m_3569201018992436496gmail-ltrSubtitle" style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #333333;">In a significant move to promote reforms and bring ease of doing business, Department of Defence Production has waived off Quality Assurance (QA) charges levied by the QA Agencies under its administrative control for the stores meant for exports. This industry-friendly initiative would make defence products cost-competitive in the global market.</span><br />''</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <br />''The Ministry of Defence provides proof/testing facilities to the industry for their products through its various Proof/Testing establishments to make Indian Defence Products more competitive in the international market. Charges are levied by the QA Agencies as per the fixed rates and the industry adds this charge to the cost of the products which adversely affects its cost competitiveness. But now these charges have been scrapped.</span>