A parliamentary committee report has said that quality compromises, substandard raw materials, and ageing weaponry contributed to 269 accidents involving four key small arms in the Indian Army over five years, starting from 2015–16. The Public Accounts Committee, in its 54th report on “Production of Small Arms in Ordnance Factories”, which is based on Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) Report No. They include the Small Arms Factory, Kanpur, Rifle Factory Ishapore, Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli, and Ordnance Factory Project Korwa. The DI committee also “failed to ensure timely investigation and prompt remedial measures to avoid recurrence,” PAC, headed by Congress MP KC Venugopal, observed. “End-of-life or nearing end-of-life of weapon is the common probable cause of failure in most of the DI cases.”