New Delhi: Failed trials have nixed the Indian Army's plans to induct 1.86 lakh bulletproof jackets as the jackets fielded by vendors failed the trials.
"The government has withdrawn a 2009 tender for procurement of over 1.86 lakh bulletproof jackets for the army after the items fielded by the vendors failed the trials," Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar informed the parliament today.
Parrikar said that the Defence Acquisition Council had accorded Acceptance of Necessity in October, 2009, for capital procurement of a total of 1,86,138 bulletproof jackets under the 11th army plan.
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The Request for Proposal was retracted on October 5 as the jackets fielded by the vendors failed in the trials, Parrikar said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha,.
While 1.86 lakh jackets were to be inducted in the Army by 2012, another 1.67 bullet proof jackets were to be ordered in the second round.
(With inputs from PTI)
