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By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI
NEW DELHI — India’s overdue Tactical Communication System (TCS) may be further delayed or fail because development will be restricted to domestic companies under the procurement category called “Make India,” experts and Army officials said.
“The main challenge is adopting a completely new set of procedures for Make for the first time in the form of experimentation with the Army, which is hardly prepared for the same,” said defense Rahul Bhonsle, a retired Indian Army brigadier.
“Make requires extensive interaction and synergy with numbers of agencies by the Corps of Signal in the lead; more time has been spent in understanding the system, which itself has flaws, than activating procurement. Buy and Make may have been a better option which would have facilitated acquiring project management expertise in the initial stage,” Bhonsle said.
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