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  Restructuring ADA                                                                                     Prof. Prodyut Das   Very recently the Modi Government has broken up the Ordinance Factories Board (OFB). Heritage conservationists will no doubt be appalled for the organization was over two-hundred-year-old. It is not possible for the average person to follow all the details of the change and we will have to wait to see the result but perhaps a single example will illustrate the need to restructure or change the modus operandi.   The technical license for the 155/39 Bofors Howitzer was obtained in the 1980s. The Gun was one of the “war winners” of Kargil and yet throughout the Ancien Regime, the Army did not receive a single Bofors from the OFB factories. In the meantime, the requirement had changed to 155/52 ; perhaps the ploy was to go in for another license with its attendant kickbacks. It is wrong to presume that the entire fault for the above sorry state of affairs was w