The Indian Ordinance And Factories Services (IOFS)

You will be required to serve mostly where ordinance factories (i.e. factories that make equipment including sleeping bags and tents, for the defence services) are located e.g. Jabalpur. During the first 10 years in the Service, you could even be asked to serve for upto 4 years, as a Commissioned Officer in the Armed Forces.

The promotions up to the Senior Administrative Grade are standard Central Service Promotions. In the Additional Secretaries' Grade you would most probably be made a General Manager. After that there is a scale which begins at the AS level. In this scale are the Members of the OFS (ordinance Factories Board) / the Additional DGOF (Director General Ordinance Factories). The head of the service is the chairman of the OFB / DGOF, who has the same fixed salary as the Secretaries.