{"id":375259,"date":"2020-09-25T11:17:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T05:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375259"},"modified":"2020-09-25T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:51:20","slug":"no-tech-transfer-yet-rafale-makers-didnt-deliver-on-offsets-says-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-tech-transfer-yet-rafale-makers-didnt-deliver-on-offsets-says-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"No tech transfer yet, Rafale makers didn\u2019t deliver on offsets, says CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming down heavily on the government\u2019s offset policy for defence procurement, the national auditor cited the example of the 36 Rafale fighter jets bought from Dassault Aviation and said that the French manufacturer has not delivered on its promises regarding transfer of technology.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Wednesday, after its latest reports were tabled in Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said: \u201c\u2026it was found that the foreign vendors made various offset commitments to qualify for the main supply contract but later, were not earnest about fulfilling these commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Rafale deal in this context, the CAG said: \u201cFor instance, in the offset contract relating to 36 Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming down heavily on the government\u2019s offset policy for defence procurement, the national auditor cited the example of the 36 Rafale fighter jets bought from Dassault Aviation and said that the French manufacturer has not delivered on its promises regarding transfer of technology. In a statement issued Wednesday, after its latest reports were tabled in Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) said: \u201c\u2026it was found that the foreign vendors made various offset commitments to qualify for the main supply contract but later, were not earnest about fulfilling these commitments.\u201d Referring to the Rafale deal in this context, the CAG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}