India’s Ordnance Factories Day - march 18
March 24 , 2023
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- This day commemorates the founding of the first ordnance factory in colonial India near Kolkata, in 1801.
- The Ordnance Factories Board was founded in 1775.
- Now it has 41 ordnance factories, nine training institutes, three regional marketing centres and five regional controllerates of safety.
- East India Company established a Gun Carriage Agency in 1801 in Kolkata.
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