Defence Ministry has approved a proposal for bringing in industry-friendly reform related to Authority Holding Sealed Particulars (AHSP).
Key points
- The AHSP is the authority which is responsible for generating, maintaining, updating or declaring obsolete the entire history and technical information of defence products.
- So far, Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA) was the AHSP for majority of defence items designed, developed and manufactured by various DPSUs and Private Industries.
- Now, the Ministry has decided now to liberalise the AHSP procedures and make it industry-friendly.
- The Indian defence companies, which have developed products, systems, subsystems, components on their own indigenous capabilities (except critical stores), will now be allowed to own and account for their final designs and specification as AHSP.
- In case of any change in the sealed particulars, a simplified mechanism representing all the concerned stakeholders, including the industry, will take a decision.
