THE first two T-72 battle tanks overhauled under a pilot project at Vehicle Factory Jabalpur (VFJ), a unit of Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVNL), were flagged off on Wednesday in a dignified ceremony by Lieutenant General Amardeep Singh Ojela, Master General Sustenance (MGS). With this achievement, VFJ is now set to undertake large-scale overhauling of tanks. The ceremony was attended by Sanjay Dwivedi, CMD, AVNL, Satyabrata Mukherjee, Director (Operations & HR), Major General Prabhjot Singh Bhati, ADG, Major General RS Sundaram, ADG, Praveen Kumar, CGM, VFJ, SP Dekate, Controller CQA (OFV), Rajeev Gupta, CGM, GCF, along with a large number of AVNL officers and employees. To meet the increasing requirement of battle tank overhauling for the Indian Army, AVNL selected VFJ to augment existing overhaul facilities at its Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF).

 

As a part of this capacityenhancement initiative, VFJ was approved in 2025 to undertake pilot overhauling of tanks. VFJ successfully completed the overhaul strictly in accordance with the technical specifications and quality standards prescribed by the Indian Army, demonstrating its readiness to meet operational requirements. Addressing the gathering, CMD Sanjay Dwivedi congratulated the VFJ team for completing the overhauling within the stipulated timeframe and reaffirmed AVNL’s commitment to ensuring full-scale tank overhauling at VFJ. Chief Guest Lt Gen Amardeep Singh Ojela congratulated the entire AVNL and VFJ team on the successful completion of the first two tanks, terming it a challenging task executed efficiently and expressing confidence in VFJ’s capability to handle larger overhauling assignments in the future. CGM Praveen Kumar assured the guests that VFJ would continue to deliver tank overhauling with full capacity and efficiency.