"To mark the year 2023 as the international year of millets, firms associated with marketing of packaged & branded millet based products are requested to apply for introduction of items in CSD." For introduction guidelines, refer "New Introduction Form" segment on the Home page. "
MAJ GEN YP KHANDURI
General Manager,
Canteen Stores Department
CSD was set up in 1948, CSD created to a few hundred URCs with a select range of basic items of daily use. Today CSD sources and distributes for a fraternity of over 13.5 million serving personal, pensioners and families!
For CSD, ‘Consumer is the King’ Therefore, CSD attempts to meet every demand from the URC by following an aggressive “No Denials” policy and at the same time we make sure that the interest of Vendors are attended to only so far as it is necessary for promoting the requirement of our troops.
Times are changing and with increased consumerism, nuclear families, the proliferation of media, the internet and media responsive mobile device, come increased spending at the individual and household level. No longer satisfied with only low-cost brands, our consumers now crave for a premium shopping experience in an exclusive shopping environment.
The future holds lot of promise and the digital onslaught presents numerous opportunities as also many challenges. While anticipating the next round of changes in a now resurgent India, we are confident of our ability to continue fulfilling our mandate to the soldier and his family.
Jai Hind!
MAJ GEN YP KHANDURI
1. Maj Gen YP Khanduri was commissioned into 10th Battalion, The Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry in June 1987. He Later commanded 16th Battalion, The Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry on Western Front, and in high altitude area on the Line of Control. He commanded an Infantry Brigade and an Infantry Division on the Western Front.
2. He has tenetted operational staff appointment in a Counter Insurgency (Rashtriya Rifles) Force, as operational logistic staff appointment in the Desert sector and has been a Station Commander of a vital military station in J&K.
3. He has been instructer at National Defence Academy and the Infantry School.
4. He has been part of the Indian Contingent in UN mission in Somalia Served as a UN Military Observer in Iraq/Kuwait and the Defence Attache in the Embassy of India, Kabul(Afghanistan).
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