Is the elephant shot on firepower?

From the office of CAG comes a new blow to the current establishment but this one concerns every Indian in the most critical way i.e security.According to the latest CAG report tabled in Parliament yesterday, India has just 10 days of ammunition in reserve down from the authorised and mandatory 20 days reserve.Even in this, the critical ammunition for Artillery ammunition was found to be at critical levels. That being said the issue has not come overnight but is the result of decades of red-tapism plaguing the defense ministry.A similar report came out in 2013 but the lessons have not been learned and India still continues to rely on luck if an escalation were to take place.To make up for the shortfall the Army has to take the ammunition from 1 basket i.e for training needs and use it to at least save face in this area.We can only hope that sense prevails and the recent decisions such as giving the vice chief of army the power to make emergency purchases translates into reasonable outcomes