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India’s Ordnance Factories Day - march 18

March 24 , 2023 616 days 436 0
  • 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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