Ordnance Factory Board

August 24, 2019 August 24, 2019

The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) is the world’s largest government-owned and operated defense production organization.

The Ordnance Factory Board is the oldest organization run by the Government of India.
It is an industrial organization which functions under the Department of Defence Production of Ministry of Defence, Government of India.
The OFB is engaged in the research & development of weapons, their production & testing, marketing and logistics.
The OFB provides a comprehensive weapons portfolio range which includes air, land and sea defense systems.
Currently, the OFB consists of 3 Regional Marketing Centres, 4 Regional Controllerates of Safety, 9 training institutes and 41 Ordnance Factories.
These OFB associates are spread all over the country and it employs nearly 90,000 people.

The Employees of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) had been on a strike since August 14.
This strike was called against the alleged instances of privatization.
However, after the leaders of the federations and the Secretary of DPP met and discussed all points of contention, the employees called off their protests.
It has been decided that a high-level committee be established to interact with the employees? federations to ascertain their concerns and other aspects of the proposed entity.