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This is a list of officers of the Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS). Pages in category "Indian Ordnance Factories Service officers" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) is a civil service of the Government of India. IOFS officers are Gazetted (Group A) defence-civilian officers under the Ministry of Defence. They are responsible for the administration of the Indian Ordnance Factories, which provide the indigenous defence production capabilities of India.
1935 – Indian Ordnance Service was introduced to administer the whole Defence Production Industry of India. 1954 – Indian Ordnance Service (IOS) renamed to Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS). 1979 – Ordnance Factory Board is established on 2 April.
The main gate of the National Academy of Defence Production. The National Academy of Defence Production, erstwhile known as the Ordnance Factory Staff College, was established in 1978 with a sole purpose to impart training to the officers recruited under the Indian Ordnance Factories Service, a group A gazetted service under the Ministry of Defence of the government of India.
Mantosh Sondhi was an IOFS officer. [1] He served as the first General Manager of the Heavy Vehicles Factory, [2] [3] [4] one of the 41 Indian Ordnance Factories.He was the founding Chairman & Managing Director of Bokaro Steel Plant.
Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli (OFT), also called Ordnance Factory Trichy, is a small arms factory operated by Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited based in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, which was previously part of Ordnance Factory Board of the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. [1]
As an IOFS officer, he worked in several ordnance factories in India including Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur and the Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi, and, in 1971, joined Hindustan Aeronautics Limited where he rose through ranks to become its chairman in 2001, the second civilian to hold the post. [1]
Major Hari Pal Singh Ahluwalia (6 November 1936 – 14 January 2022) was an Indian mountaineer, author, social worker and Indian Ordnance Factories Service officer. [2] During his career he made contributions in the fields of adventure, sports, environment, disability and social work. [ 3 ]