Army’s GOCO Model for Improving Efficiency. Rudra 📌📌

Part of :- GS paper lll - Various Security Forces and Agencies, Their structure, function and mandate.

Recently, the Indian Army has initiated the process of identifying potential industry partners to implement the Government Owned Contractor Operated (GOCO) model for its base workshops and ordnance depots.

GOCO will improve the operational efficiency of the army.

Criteria for Service Provider: It should be an Indian registered company with at least 10 years of working experience in related domains and have an average annual turnover of ₹50 crore for each of the last three financial years.

Government Owned Contractor Operated Model :-

It was one of the recommendations of the Lt. Gen. DB Shekatkar (Retd.) committee to enhance combat capability and re-balancing defence expenditure.