Vehicle Fac. Jabalpur

Vehicle Fac. Jabalpur

Vehicle Factory Jabalpur (VFJ) is a military motor vehicle manufacturing company located in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India functioning under the aegis of Ordnance Factories Board controlled by the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. It has been established by the Government of India to cater the transport needs of the Indian Armed Forces, it manufactures and assembles general staff vehicles, logistics vehicles, light armoured vehicles like bullet-proof vehicles, mine protected vehicles and specialist role vehicles such as water bowsers, fuel tankers, field ambulances, tippers, battery command posts, generator sets, light recovery vehicles, field artillery tractors, kitchen containers etc. It also has some variants for civilian applications. The production of Shaktiman trucks, Jonga Light Utility Vehicles (LUV) and Vahan 1 ton began at the Gun Carriage Factory Jabalpur in 1959. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India was present to witness rolling of the first batch of vehicles at GCF. It was shifted to the present location in 1969. The factory is headed only by an IOFS officer called General Manager (ex officio, Additional Secretary to Government of India) who is the Chief Executive Officer responsible for the overall management of the company and is the main judicial authority.

It started manufacturing Shaktiman trucks with license from MAN SE of Germany along with Jonga and Vahan 1 ton under license from Nissan of Japan. All three of the above products have been retired and replaced by the new products.