USNMix Report: Army Officers
shock from new CSD rule,
one car to be taken in 8 years
one car to be taken in 8 years
A new controversy has arisen on the new orders
issued by the Quarter Master General Branch of Army Headquarters on May 24 to
buy the car. Army headquarters say that it was necessary to take these steps to
stop the misuse of the public exchequer. According to this directive, an
officer will be able to buy a car only once in 8 years from the CSD service
department. At the same time, the car will have less than 2500 cc engine power
and less than Rs 12 lakh.
Steps to stop the misuse of
public exchequer
For the jawans this limit
will be 1400 cc and 5 lacs. According to the Army headquarters, these steps are
being taken to prevent the misuse of the public exchequer. Army headquarters
sources say that for the past some time it was being seen that the facility of
CSD was being misused. The purchase of a car from CSD is of 50 thousand to 1.5
lakhs. This is because the government offers a 50% discount in tax on
purchasing in CSD. That is, the government has a loss of 50 percent tax on
every purchase.
Car sales decline by 17
percent in the country
Last year i.e.
fiscal year 2018-19, there was a decrease of 17 percent in sales of cars across
the country, but in CSD, there was a 20 percent jump in car sales. Sales of
only one-third of sales in CSD last year were only car sales. There were also
cases when the car was purchased by CSD from a cheap car and bought a second
car from the CSD.
34 Area Depots all over the
country
CSD was started in 1948 for
providing cheap goods to the soldiers. Today there are 34 Area Depots in the
entire country from where the goods are sent to every military camp in the
whole country. For this, the government gives a budget of 17,000 crores every
year. The convenience of the CSD canteen is one of the services of military
service. But this facility is also misused and Army Headquarters is trying to
stop this.
Some of the Army
Headquarters's decisions are opposed by some army personnel. These decisions
include shutting down of non-essential military messengers, cutting of visits
of senior officers without requiring them, and prohibiting the placement of
large number of senior officials or assistants in houses. According to an
officer of the army headquarters, these decisions will be stopped in the
absence of the sacrifice of soldiers and the abuse and misuse of the facilities
available for the hard job.
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