TATRA KOLOS CZECH REPUBLIC | TATRA BEML DEFENCE TRUCK INDIA | MILITARY TROOP AND CARGO CARRIER

Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) is an Indian Public Sector Undertaking, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It manufactures a variety of heavy equipment, such as that used for earth moving, transport and mining. BEML incorporated in May 1964, with the help of the Soviet Union. It was wholly owned and operated by India's Ministry of Defense. BEML is Asia's second-largest manufacturer of earth moving equipment, ⁣ and it controls 70% of India's market in that sector. A probe into an alleged scam in the purchase of Tatra trucks for the Indian Army led to the suspension of the then-BEML chief by the Defense Ministry. The scam is all about a possible embezzlement of a sum of Rs 750 crores of Government funds, perpetrated by the Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) in collusion with the Ministry of Defense. The Tatra T813 was a truck produced in Czechoslovakia by the Tatra company. It was produced from 1967 to 1982. The basic representative of this series was a military version of the 8×8 Kolos (Colossus), which was able to pull trailers up to a total weight of 100 tons. Tatra also produced a civilian version in either 6×6 or 4×4. After fifteen years of production, 11,751 vehicles were built in all modifications. Many units were exported to the USSR, East Germany, Romania and India. Tatra is a Czech vehicle manufacturer from Kopřivnice. It is owned by the Tatra Trucks company, and it is the third oldest company in the world producing cars with an unbroken history.The company was founded in 1850 as Ignatz Schustala & Comp., in 1890 renamed in German Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft when it became a wagon and carriage manufacturer. In 1897, Tatra produced the first motor car in central Europe, the Präsident automobile.