With the objective of giving a push to the Indian defence industry and procure state of the art weapons for the armed forces, the Defence Ministry on Tuesday released the second draft of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020, now titled as ‘Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020'. It invites suggestions and comments from all the stakeholders besides general public.
Giving details here, defence ministry officials said here it may be recalled that the first draft DPP 2020 was web hosted and comments/recommendations/suggestions were solicited from various stakeholders by April 17, 2020; later extended to May 08, 2020. Since then, suggestions were received from various stakeholders, Services, industry running into more than 10,000 pages.
After an analysis of these comments received from various agencies, specific interactions were also carried out with the entire spectrum of stakeholders, both in person and via web conferences in order to understand their precise concerns.
The amended second draft has since been finalised by the review committee driven by tenets of defence reforms announced as part of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ and has been placed in the public domain.
Specific comments on the same are once again solicited on the amended draft latest by August 10, 2020.