Lt Gen Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)
Chairman
Email: rajkadyan8@gmail.com
Telephone: 09811226676
Vet/CSD/2017 26 Aug 2017
To:
General Bipin Rawat, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM
Chief of the Army Staff
Integrated HQ of Ministry of Defence (Army)
South Block, New Delhi-110011
Functioning of CSD outlets
- This is to bring to your notice the problems being faced by the veterans with respect to the unit run canteens. As learnt through interaction with canteen managers, there are presently three limitations imposed on the canteens. These are:
- The limit laid on the individual canteen cards. These are in terms of financial limit for groceries and in terms of units in liquor.
- There is also a monthly limit on how much a URC can buy in a month. This is in contradiction of (a) above. Based on the dependency, Gurgaon canteen for example, should be buying goods worth Rs 7 Crore every month to meet the demands of all veterans. However, his monthly purchase limit has been pegged at Rs 2 Crore. This leads to shortages and of late it is not unusual to see empty shelves in the canteen.
- Restriction on URCs of buying only once a month from the depot. This causes three problems. Firstly, the URC must have enough funds to buy the monthly quota in one go. Secondly, it leads to a storage problem, particularly for URCs functioning from small spaces. Thirdly, there is almost unmanageable rush of buying on the day following the date of collection.
- It is recommended that optimally, collection of stores from the depots should be allowed thrice in a month.
- It is learnt there is also a (new) requirement to get the canteen demands countersigned by a ‘brigade commander’. This is likely to cause an administrative delay in case of URCs located in remote areas far away from a formation commanded a Brigadier. This may kindly be reviewed, more so, since we have experienced veterans managing the canteens.
Lt Gen Raj Kadyan