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Message From the Secretary/IOFSOA
Respected Members, I feel privileged to be secretary of an association representing the service dedicated for defence preparedness of the country. We are facing testing times where our relevance, competence and existence is under questions. Constant unjustified criticism which lacks even a shred of being constructive is thrown at us. We are in leadership position of work domain wherein capabilities, efforts and limitations of whole defence manufacturing ecosystems gets manifested. A biased observer ends up attributing every failure on to the last runner in the relay race.
I strongly feel that we will come out of this peril unblemished and even stronger, through our constant quest for staying united, updating our self and being together come what may, and we shall be able to re-establish our pride and leadership position in the domain.
I wish all our esteemed members prosperous and fulfilling time ahead.
Thank you
SECRETARY
OFFICE BEARERS
INDIAN ORDNANCE FACTORIES SERVICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION
GOVERNING BODY LIST
| S/N | NAME | DESIGNATION |
|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Anurag Yadav |
Secretary |
|
2 |
Prabhasa Bhoi |
Joint Secretary |
|
3 |
Manish Srivastava |
Treasurer |
|
4 |
Virendra Kumar |
Joint Treasurer |
|
5 |
Abhilash Deshmukh |
Member |
|
6 |
Lokesh Meena |
Member |
|
7 |
Lokesh Kumar Sharma |
Member |
|
8 |
Manoj Kumar |
Member |
|
9 |
Vivek Anand |
Member |
|
10 |
Saurabh Mishra |
Member |
CONTRIBUTION OF IOFS OFFICERS
TOWARDS DEFENCE PREPAREDNESS
Indian ordnance factory service officers are defence civilian officers working under department of defence production, ministry of defence and they are responsible for supplying all defence based equipments/services to various forces of India for safeguarding the nation against any threat. IOFS officers are multidisciplinary officers from various technical and administrative fields and possesses exemplary experience and expertise in core manufacturing, management & maintenance of very large plants, planning, deep routed knowledge of weapon platform & ammunition for research and development (R&D), quality control, quality assurance, domestic and global procurement. Due to extensive research, development, planning, procurement, production, intense testing of comprehensive defence based product range. IOFS fraternity under umbrella of OFB delivered world class defence based items to Indian armed force, air force, naval force, police force, paramilitary force & Special Forces.
With vast knowledge, experience and rich educational background, IOFS officers played a vital role in defence preparedness of the country since independence and ensured that armed forces engaged in internal and external security of nation remained well equipped with quality products. IOFS officers with their unprecedented technical expertise developed country first indigenous Dhanush artillery high calibre gun.
As a part of defence preparedness of country IOFS officers were part of core development groups established for space missions and missiles. IOFS officers associated with various successful missions in respect of propellant design and filling. IOFS officers created many products through inhouse R&D with limited resources e.g. mine protected vehicles, FICV, Sharang (upgunning of vintage M-46 artillery gun), Trichy rifles, bullet proofing, parachutes, troop comfort products and so on. The efforts in product development through inhouse R&D, resulted into self reliance and sustenance of product availability. OFs developed products which are best in class in respect of quality and price. IOFS officers being leaders, always worked towards upgradation of production facilities, creating business environment in country through promoting MSMEs and SMEs, regional socio-economic development, product development & upgradation.
During Kargil war, under exemplary leadership of IOFS officers the then chief of army staff and the parliamentary standing committee congratulates IOFS fraternity for distinguish services to nation in tough time. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi call the entire workforce of defence production as force behind the force and gave the honorific status of “The fourth arm of defence”.