Indian Army ammunition won’t even last 10 days in event of a war, suggests CAG reports

If India were to go to war now, 90 per cent of its available ammunition would not last even for 10 days, inferred the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in a report tabled in Parliament on Friday. It said the ammunition roadmap drawn by the Army in 2012 for building up the stock to 50 per cent by March 2015 and 100 per cent by 2019 has remained far from realization. Coming down heavily on the Defence Ministry, the Army , ordnance factories and quality assurance agencies, the report highlighted that while the Army blamed the Ordnan…