Navdeep,

The lousy ammo is almost certainly because the IOF in its infinite wisdom continues to load the rounds with cordite even now, some fifty years after the rest of the world consigned cordite to the dustbin. They claim that the Ooty Cordite plant has ISO 9001-2000 certification, whatever that may mean from a quality viewpoint.

I find it incredible that there are always chest thumpers out to defend the third rate quality of IOF junk no matter that it is a disgrace to India's name to begin with. There is a pressing need to modernize the small arms industry in India, but, unfortunately, there will always be nameless and faceless posters on internet forums claiming to have been soldiers or Field Marshalls or whatever talking out of their hats to praise something that is essentially disgraceful.