To enhance functional autonomy, efficiency and unleash new growth potential and innovation in Ordnance Factories, the production units of Ordnance Factory Board have been converted into 7 Defence Public Sector Undertakings with 41 Units with effect from 1st October 2021 (“Appointed date”). The details are as follows:
| Sl no | Name of transferring production unit | Name of transferee New DPSUs and main objectives / business | |||
| Ammunition Factory Khadki | Munitions India Limited. This DPSU will be engaged in the business of manufacturing ammunition and explosives. Registered and corporate office: Ammunition Factory Khadki, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 411003 | ||||
| Cordite Factory Aruvankadu | |||||
| High Energy Projectile Factory Tiruchirappalli | |||||
| High Explosive Factory Khadki | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Bhandara | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Bolangir | |||||
| Ordnance Factory ChandaChandrapur | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Dehu Road | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Itarsi | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Khamaria | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Nalanda | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Varangaon | |||||
| Engine Factory Avadi | Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited. This DPSU will be engaged in the business of manufacturing vehicles. Registered and corporate office: HVF Road, Bhaktavatsalapuram, Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600054 | ||||
| Heavy Vehicle Factory Avadi | |||||
| Machine Tool Prototype Factory Ambernath | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Medak | |||||
| Vehicle Factory Jabalpur | |||||
| Field Gun Factory Kanpur | Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited. This DPSU will be engaged in the business of manufacturing weapons and equipment. Registered and corporate office: Ordnance Factory Kanpur, Kalpi Road, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 208009 | ||||
| Gun Carriage Factory Jabalpur | |||||
| Gun and Shell Factory Cossipore | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Kanpur | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Project Korwa | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli | |||||
| Rifle Factory Ishapore | |||||
| Small Arms Factory Kanpur | |||||
| Ordnance Clothing Factory Avadi | Troop Comforts Limited. This DPSU will be engaged in the business of manufacturing troop comfort items. Registered and corporate office: C/o Ordnance Factory Equipment, Headquarter G T Road, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 208013 | ||||
| Ordnance Clothing Factory Shahjahanpur | |||||
| Ordnance Equipment Factory Kanpur | |||||
| Ordnance Equipment Factory Hazratpur | |||||
| Grey Iron Foundry Jabalpur | Yantra India Limited. This DPSU will be engaged in the business of manufacturing Military Grade components and Ancillary products. Registered and corporate office: C/o The General Manager Ordnance Factory, Ambajhari Amravati Road Ambajhari, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, 440021 | ||||
| Metal and Steel Factory Ishapore | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Ambernath | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Ambajhari | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Bhusawal | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Dumdum | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Katni | |||||
| Ordnance Factory Muradnagar | |||||
| Ordnance Cable Factory Chandigarh | India Optel Limited. This DPSU will be engaged in the business of manufacturing opto-electronic items. Registered and corporate office: C/o Opto Electronic Factory, Raipur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, 248008 | ||||
| Ordnance Factory Dehradun | |||||
| Opto-Electronics Factory Dehradun | |||||
| Ordnance Parachute Factory Kanpur | Gliders India Limited. This DPSU will be engaged in the business of manufacturing parachutes. Registered and corporate office: C/o Ordnance Factory Equipment Headquarter, G T Road, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, 208005 | ||||
| Non-Production Units merged with the New DPSUs | |||||
| Sl no | Name of transferring non-production unit | Name of transferee New DPSUs | |||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Khamaria | Munitions India Limited | ||||
| National Academy of Defence Production, Ambajhari | |||||
| Regional Controllerate of Safety Pune. | |||||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Ambernath | Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited | ||||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Avadi | |||||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Medak | |||||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Ishapore | Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited | ||||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Kanpur* | Troop Comforts Limited | ||||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Ambajhari | Yantra India Limited | ||||
| Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Dehradun | India Optel Limited | ||||
| Non Production units handed over to New DPSUs and their employees shall be transferred to the OF units, as under: | |||||
| Sl no | Name of transferring non-production unit | Name of transferee Unit and New DPSUs | |||
| 1. | Regional Marketing Centre, Pune | Ammunition Factory Khadki; Munitions India Limited | |||
| 2. | Regional Controllerate of Safety, Avadi | Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi; Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited | |||
| 3. | Regional Marketing Centre, Chennai | ||||
| 4. | AV Head Quarter, Avadi | ||||
| 5. | OFB Mumbai Office | Machine Tool Prototype Factory, Ambarnath; Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited | |||
| 6. | Regional Controllerate of Safety, Kanpur | Ordnance Factory Kanpur; Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited | |||
| 7. | OEF Head Quarter, Kanpur | Ordnance Equipment Factory, Kanpur; Troop Comforts Limited | |||
| 8. | Ordnance Factory Recruitment Centre | Ordnance Factory, Ambajhari; Yantra India Limited | |||
| 9. | Regional Controllerate of Safety, Ambajhari | ||||
| 10. | Regional Controllerate of Safety, Ishapore | Metal & Steel Factory, Ishapore: Yantra India Limited | |||
| 11. | Regional Marketing Centre, New Delhi | Ordnance Factory, Muradnagar; Yantra India Limited | |||
*Ordnance Factories Institute of Learning, Kanpur would continue to cater to the training needs of the staff of Gliders India Limited.
The new Defence Public Sector Undertakings would have more functional and financial autonomy as well as more accountability to absorb technologies.
The Government has taken following steps to protect the interests of employees and workers of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB):
• All the employees of OFB (Group A, B & C) belonging to the production units and also the identified non-production units (as per the structure set out in Annexure) have been 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 from the Appointed Date.
• Till such time, the employees remain on deemed deputation to the new DPSUs, they shall continue to be subject to all the extant rules, regulations and orders as are applicable to the Central Government servants, including related to their pay scales, allowances, leave, medical facilities, career progression and other service conditions.
• All the employees of OFB(Group A, B & C) belonging to OFB Head Quarter (at Kolkata), OFB New Delhi Office, OF Schools and OF Hospitals have been transferred en masse to the Directorate of Ordnance (Coordination & Services) under the Department of Defence Production, initially for a period of two years from the Appointed Date.
• The pension liabilities of the retirees and existing employees will continue to be borne by the Government. For the employees recruited after 01.01.2004, National Pension Scheme applicable to the Central Government employees is in vogue and the same would be adopted by the new DPSUs, including continuation of all special provisions applicable to Central Government employees under the National Pension System.
This information was given by Raksha Rajya Mantri Shri Ajay Bhatt in a written reply to Shri kc Ramamurthy in Rajya Sabha today.