OFB receives extra demand for some items: Chairman

The Ordnance Factory Board has revived the anti-aircraft guns production and has also received some extra demand for 'some items' in the wake of the border tension with Pakistan, a top OFB official said Wednesday.

"There has been demand for some items which cannot be revealed and we are fulfilling," OFB chairman Saurabh Kumar said when asked whether there had been some extra activity in the OFB plants post the Pulwama terror attack.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of CII annual regional meeting he said the cumulative order book of OFB factories will be around Rs 50,000 crore

"In Cossipur Gun and Shell factory, we will revive anti-aircraft guns as there is demand from here (Indian army) and outside," he said.

Kumar did not reveal any further details.

The plant began production of anti-aircraft guns from 1962 and established capability for 12.7 mm air defence guns in 1999.

Production of anti-aircraft guns was discontinued some years ago due to lack of demand for a ..