{"id":9273,"date":"2022-10-21T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9273"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:48:29","slug":"indian-armys-emergency-procurements-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/indian-armys-emergency-procurements-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Army\u2019s Emergency Procurements (EP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Indian Army\u2019s Emergency Procurements (EP):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian Army, which has made three tranches of Emergency Procurements (EP) in the last few years, is preparing for a fourth round of EP which will be entirely from the domestic industry.<\/li>\n<li>Three tranches of EPs were executed under which 68 contracts worth \u20b96,000 crore were placed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Emergency financial powers:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Emergency financial powers were granted to the armed forces by the Defence Ministry in the past under which they could procure weapons systems<strong>\u00a0up to \u20b9300 crores<\/strong>\u00a0on an \u201curgent basis without any further clearances to cut short the procurement cycle.<\/li>\n<li>It also gives them an opportunity to test various systems in the field before going in for larger acquisition through the capital budget route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G12ADVTOP.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Emergency financial powers, Indian Army could procure weapons systems up to \u20b9300 crores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}