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Penalty of $43.14 million imposed for non-fulfilment of offset norms in 16 defence contracts: Ajay Bhatt

05 Apr 2022 Evaluate

Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt has said that offset obligations were not fulfilled in 21 defence contracts in the last five years and a total penalty of $43.14 million was levied on firms involved in 16 such procurement deals. He said offset claims worth $2.64 billion have been submitted in 47 contracts till December 31. 

Bhatt said under India's offset policy, foreign defence entities, for all contracts worth Rs 2,000 crore or more, are mandated to spend at least 30 per cent of the total contract value in India through procurement of components, transfer of technologies or setting up of research and development activities. However, the offsets are not applicable to procurements under 'fast track procedure' and in 'option clause' cases if the same was not envisaged in the original contract.

He further said the total number of offset contracts in which the vendors have defaulted/non-performed offset obligation during the last five years is 21 with non-performed amount of $2.24 billion till December 31. He said action is taken against the defaulting/non-performing vendors by imposing penalty after following the laid down procedure. And same has been completed in 16 contracts with levying of penalty amounting to $43.14 million till December 31. 

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