New Delhi: In 72% of the army contracts under emergency procurement (EP) delays have been highlighted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in a report tabled in the Parliament on Thursday (December 18). The CAG has pointed out that that these contracts were not delivered within the stipulated timelines and also objected to the Indian Army regularising “deviations” beyond the waivers granted from prescribed procurement processes and rules to meet operational requirements, reported The Hindu Businessline.The CAG has suggested that deviations should be regularised only by the Army Headquarters.“There were delays at various stages of the indigenisation process, and 30 per cent of the supply orders placed for indigenised development were foreclosed. The primary reasons included lack of vendor response, inability to develop the items and non-availability of specified material,” says the CAG’s Report No 28 of 2025, Union Government (Defence Services – Army) for the year ended March 2023.According to the report, following Operation Sindoor, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) allocated around Rs 40,000 crore under EP–6 for the current financial year for the procurement of critical equipment and systems to address capability deficiencies and replenish ammunition and spares, reported Businessline.The report states that EP–5 was aimed at meeting counter-insurgency requirements, while EP–1 to EP–4 were placed after the Galwan incident to plug critical strategic gaps.“While the primary objective of the special waivers was to ensure speedy procurement, in 72 per cent of the contracts examined in audit, items were not delivered within the stipulated timelines,” the CAG observed in the report, stated about emergency procurements.