Jagran correspondent, Kanpur. Ordnance Equipment Factory (OEF), a unit of Troop Comforts Limited (TCL) has become a leader in the supply of military defense products to the Army. OEF has claimed to complete the target of supplying tents, boots, sleeping bags and other military defense products to the army in nine months instead of one year. OEF, Kanpur has supplied military products worth Rs 630 crore to the Army from January 1 to December 31, 2025. This is the highest order till date of Rs 500 crore which has been completed before the scheduled time. Now armament officers have started exploring possibilities to get export orders in the global defense sector in the new financial year.
Last month itself, OEF has supplied ECC mattress mattresses (sleeping bags) that keep the temperature normal in the snowy borders, tents that keep cold, heat and rain safe from fire, level-five bulletproof jackets, boots, snow boots and uniforms that keep the body safe from AK-47 bullets, Chagal that keeps water cool in summer. Chief General Manager of OEF, Kanpur, Dr. Anil Ranga said that OEF has completed orders worth Rs. 600 crore in the last year. Completing orders worth Rs 431 crore in just nine months of the financial year is a record. Similar remarkable works will be done in future also.
There are orders to make indigenous weapons and military defense products
After corporatization of armament factories, they have now been converted into companies. Troop Comforts Limited (TCL), Gliders India Limited (GIL) located on GT Road in Kanpur city and Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited (AWEIL) are headquartered at Armapur. All three companies have orders ranging from military defense products to weapons and tanks. TCL has work orders worth around Rs 1500 crore, GIL has Rs 155 crore and AWEIL has work orders worth Rs 3100 crore.
Under AWEIL, there are Small Arms Factory at Armapur, Field Gun Factory, Ordnance Factory Kanpur, Gun and Shell Factory Cossipore (Kolkata), Gun Carriage Factory Jabalpur, Ordnance Factory Korba (Amethi), Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu), Rifle Factory Ishapore (West Bengal). Ordnance Parachute Factory, Cantt. under Gliders India Limited Company. Under TCL, TCL has four units OEF Kanpur and Hazratpur (Firozabad), Ordnance Clothing Factory (OCF) Shahjahanpur and Avadi (Tamil Nadu).