India Completes Delivery of 633 Military Vehicles to Zimbabwe

[Water Car Engineer]

India began industrialization early on and the results are paying off.
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Before the 90s, it was a controlled industry. The government controlled the amount of production, prices, and gave out licenses very rarely. And the private sector was virtually shackled. After the 90s, you see the growth of private sector companies like L&T, TATAs, Mahindras, etc, etc.

To think if India liberalized much, much earlier.

 

[illusion8]

Yes, they have an inflation problem. If I'm not mistaken, they were contemplating use of either USD or South African Rand and replace their currency altogether to control inflation.

One might look into the case of Bolivia or Germany after First World War as well. At one point of time, workers in Germany used to get salary twice a day and a break in between for shopping, because the prices would rise by as much as 40% daily. Hungary was even worse. There, the prices would triple every day.

When I think about it, everybody talks about and knows about Hitler and what a bad person he was. Not many know or talk about these things, that how difficult they had made it for the Germans to go about their daily life. Hitler came out of the desperation of the people. If not him, there would have been someone else.

wow, do we have another septuagenarian or what? WW II vintage..or a good historian?

 

[The_Sidewinder]

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

India began industrialization early on and the results are paying off.

How are AL vehicles in terms of quality and reliability? I've seen commercial vehicles (mostly buses) here in the UAE and they don't look too reliable or too comfortable when compared to others.

Thanks to the policies of Pre-liberalisation period (1947–1992) India is still struggling in terms of Industrialization - Industrial sector forms just 26% of our GDP and our majority workforce still happens to be employed in the agricultural sector though it forms only 17% of the same - services sector forming 57% boom did bring some growth but it can't be banked upon forever for a country as large as India. Though India is categorized as a newly industrialized country (NIC) but it still lacks a very significant point to be categorized as one - Almost all NIC's switched from agricultural to industrial economies, especially in the manufacturing sector - not exactly the case with India. Since the reforms of 1991 a lot has changed and India is being industrialized and with the new government coming up schemes like "Make in India" focused on the same - Industries are bound to boom!

As far as quality and reliability is concerned - It is noteworthy that it has been winning contracts all accross Asia and Africa as mentioned - Ashok Leyland's European subsidiary has it's manufacturing plants in North Yorkshire and Prague catering well to the local needs - In UAE it has a bus manufacturing facility too - but as far as comfort is concerned - it's more about the buck than anything else - You can have comfort in it's Luxury buses at a price -

or just cost effectiveness in it's city buses -

Cost is significant factor - at least when it comes to winning contracts in developing economies!

 

[gslv mk3]

I've seen commercial vehicles (mostly buses) here in the UAE and they don't look too reliable or too comfortable when compared to others.

Those are 70 seater buses to transport blue collar workers.They're not meant to be comfortable in any sense of the word.

 

[Not So Good]

Zimbabwe getting new vehicles for its military

Zimbabwe’s military is set to receive some of the 633 new vehicles ordered from India under a $50 million deal financed by the Exim Bank of India.

The Zimbabwe Independent reports that a large portion of the vehicles will go to the Zimbabwean army and include trucks, water cannons, busses and other vehicles.

The deal was signed last year with the vehicles supplied by Indian firm Ashok Leyland, which held a send-off ceremony for the first 90 vehicles in Mumbai, India, on 28 June. They were subsequently shipped to Durban where the landed last week, according to the Zimbabwe Independent. They will then travel to Zimbabwe via Mozambique. This first consignment included light commercial vehicles, medium duty vehicles, fire trucks, ambulances etc. The second batch comprises 155 vehicles, according to Daily Shipping Times.

Zimbabwe’s Tourism and Hospitality Industry ministry is the contracting party for the vehicles. The consignment bill describes the vehicles for “Ministry for Tourism and Hospitality activities, especially for promotion of domestic tourism, and supporting international tourism, disaster management, anti-poaching activities, peace missions and other related purposes”.

In addition to supplying the vehicles, Ashok Leyland has also been contracted to train Zimbabwean personnel in operation and maintenance of the vehicles.

Source:- Zimbabwe getting new vehicles for its military | defenceWeb

Nice looking monster

 

[AMCA]

Ashok Leyland Defence

Mine Protected Vehicle

Light Strike Vehicle

 

[Not So Good]

India began industrialization early on and the results are paying off.

How are AL vehicles in terms of quality and reliability? I've seen commercial vehicles (mostly buses) here in the UAE and they don't look too reliable or too comfortable when compared to others.

We are not up to the mark yet but non the less we are learning

 

[RazorMC]

Before the 90s, it was a controlled industry. The government controlled the amount of production, prices, and gave out licenses very rarely. And the private sector was virtually shackled. After the 90s, you see the growth of private sector companies like L&T, TATAs, Mahindras, etc, etc.

To think if India liberalized much, much earlier.

Ofcourse it wasn't liberalized owing to the close political promixity to the Soviets, but the foundations for heavy industries had been set. That is what gave India that tremendous boost in the 90s and 2000s.

Those are 70 seater buses to transport blue collar workers.They're not meant to be comfortable in any sense of the word.

I was talking about school buses not the low-cost ones though.
Or maybe my school just went with the cheapest option they found lol. Journeys were terrible tbh.

 

[gslv mk3]

Or maybe my school just went with the cheapest option they found lol. Journeys were terrible tbh.

The ones with leaf springs are the cheapest and have bad ride quality.....

 

[RazorMC]

The ones with leaf springs are the cheapest and have bad ride quality.....

AL should promote their buses well and prevent schools from buying low-cost vehicles even if it means losing a small contract. It's better to lose some profit rather than sending a poor image of India to the world.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

It was a dig at our pdf's own zimbawean @PlanetWarrior

Is staying 'BANNED' and still posting like a bada** a signature of your own?

It's better to lose some profit rather than sending a poor image of India to the world.

Not possible. A private company will care more about WINNING the bid than sending any message. Of course, they will try to do their best, but in their own interest. That is natural.

 

[Providence]

Yes, they have an inflation problem. If I'm not mistaken, they were contemplating use of either USD or South African Rand and replace their currency altogether to control inflation.

One might look into the case of Bolivia or Germany after First World War as well. At one point of time, workers in Germany used to get salary twice a day and a break in between for shopping, because the prices would rise by as much as 40% daily. Hungary was even worse. There, the prices would triple every day.

When I think about it, everybody talks about and knows about Hitler and what a bad person he was. Not many know or talk about these things, that how difficult they had made it for the Germans to go about their daily life. Hitler came out of the desperation of the people. If not him, there would have been someone else.

That transitioned happened already !

 

[nForce]

@Providence What are they using now ?

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Nice looking monster

Well - that's a representative image - here are the ones being exported -