Genesis & Growth

Genesis

Tear Smoke Munitions were imported from USA and UK to our Country till 1974. In 1974 DRDO and DGOF for the first time started the production of Tear Smoke Munitions in India. In 1976 bench scaled technology of these Munitions were transferred to BSF. The TSU unit was established at Tekanpur on  12-05-1976 as project of Ministry of Home Affairs. The Plant was set up in collaboration with Director General, Ordnance Factory (DGOF) based on the technology developed by DRDO. Till then, the Police force in India was dependent on imported Tear Smoke Munitions (TSM) for riot control. Besides, being a drain on foreign exchange, there was other obvious disadvantage.

Growth

In the original Project report at the time of inception of Tear Smoke Unit it was envisaged the whole Plant would come up in a Phase manner with installed capacity 60000 munitions per year on twelve month per year basis. However, soon it would realized that an important aspect i.e., climatic conditions have not taken into consideration for fixing the installed capacity of TSU. Hence, after putting on due deliberation on the aspect the installed capacity of the unit reduced to 50000 munitions per year based on 10 months working. 
This Unit started with the production of only four different types of Tear Smoke Munitions. The entire manpower provided to TSU had been trained from ab-nitio. 
During the year 1979-80 this Unit had achieved the level of 100 %  of their installed capacity which indicated about the high degree of dedication and professionalism shown by the personnel of TSU. After that this Unit never look behind and keep on adding the feathers in the cap over a period of time. Numbers of infrastructures including different types of machine have been added into the inventory of this Unit. Few miles stones are stipulated below in the growth of this Unit.

1. In the year 1998 this Unit has confirmed with ISO 9002 and subsequently in 2003 ISO 9001  Certification by BIS
2. Products developed by this Unit got the space in Catalogue of Jane’s Police and Security equipment manual.year1998
3. In the year 2008-09, this Unit switched over to CS based TSMs from CN based products and proves that the products of TSU are much-much effective than the earlier one.

As on date the installed capacity of this Unit is more than the double the capacity fixed at the inception of this Unit. Till now this Unit has developed 36 different types Tear Smoke Munitions and fulfilling the requirements of, SPOs, CPOs and Army by supplying TSMs (Tear Smoke Munitions) for maintaining the Law and Order situations.

Planning

To fill up the huge gap between demand and supply, TSU has decided to enhance its production capacity by almost 10 folds through capital infusion and automation, in order to implement the success automation, Tear Smoke Unit is planning to out sources following :-

1. Consultancy in the form of DPR i.e, (Detail Project Report)
2. Customised Machinery and Equipments.
3. Constructions
4. Customised ERP/BISaaS (Business Intelligence Software as a Service) for entire functioning.
5. AMC

To accomplish these works TSU is looking for reputed/experienced Firms who can extend all facilities on turnkey basis.