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Wed 07 Jul 2009Golf carts the secret weapon for upwardly mobile Indian army
FOR SOME Indian army generals, mobility on the golf course is far more important than operational preparedness, as the country’s comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has discovered.
Tabled in parliament last week, a CAG report has revealed that two three-star army commanders procured 27 golf carts by passing them off as mechanised wheelchairs for military hospitals and as track alignment reconnaissance vehicles (TARVs) for sapper units.
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