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The defence ministry has dissolved the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) with effect from October 1 and transferred its assets, employees and management to seven public sector units (PSUs), ing to an official order.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the Defence Security Corps (DSC) provide security at Indian Ordnance Factories , India's nuclear laboratories and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) establishments, respectively.

Ordnance Factory Badmal (OFBL) was started as the 39th Ordnance Factory with state-of-the-art technology from M/s Day and Zimermann, USA, M/s Josef Meissner, Germany, M/s HAKO, Switzerland and M/s KINTEX, Bulgaria. Late Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of this Factory on October 29th 1984.

“The government has decided that all the employees of OFB (Groups A, B and C) belonging to the production units and also the identified non-production units shall be transferred en masse to the new DPSUs on terms of foreign service without any deputation allowance (deemed deputation) initially for a period of two years ...

In a landmark decision, the Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the plan to corporatize the 41 Ordnance Factories into seven fully government-owned corporate entities, based on their production type. ... Employees' union of Ordnance Factories has been opposing the move, fearing privatisation of factories.

Restructuring OFB into seven PSUs Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited (AWE) Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVANI) Gliders India Limited (GIL) India Optel Limited (IOL)

As decided by the Union Cabinet on 16th June, 2021, the Government of India has decided to corporatise the functions of the 41 production units (Ordnance Factories) of the Ordnance Factory Board (“OFB”), functioning under the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence (“DDP”).

The ordnance factories form an integrated base for indigenous production of defence hardware and equipment, with the primary objective of self reliance in equipping the armed forces with state of the art battlefield equipments.

Ordnance Factory, Medak. Infantry Combat Vehicle. ... Ordnance Factory, Nalanda, Bihar. Propellant Bi-modular charges System (At Project Stage). ... Ordnance Cable Factory, Chandigarh. ... Ammunition Factory, Kirkee, Pune. ... High Explosive Factory, Pune. ... Ordnance Factory, Chandrapur. ... Ordnance Factory, Varangaon. ... Ordnance Factory, Bhandara.