Intelligence Developments: According to Indias MI sources, the Army’s logistics wing has been asked by the Union Defence Ministry, on instructions from the Finance Ministry, to reduce its fuel, oil and lubricants (FOL in Army parlance) use by over 40 per cent. This move, sources in the Armed Forces said, was a result of an audit recommendation and has resulted in lower budgetary allocation for fuel in the 2013-14 defence budget of just over 2 lakh crore. The instructions, communicated to all MI units in the Army formations, has resulted in a corresponding cut in the MI’s quota of fuel, despite the critical nature of the operatives’ work in bringing valuable information from its sources all along India’s 15,000-km border with neighbours, both friendly and inimical. As a result of this, each of the MI units operating along India’s borders with the neighbouring nations has been allocated only 10 litres of fuel, primarily petrol, a day for their field work, an operative told Major Military Intelligence
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:40:14 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015