Army Chief V K Singh and Air Chief P V Naik maintain thought they would appear by the PAC headed by senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi.
The Navy would be represented by Vice Chief D K Deewan, as chief Nirmal Verma is in Indonesia on a "pre-scheduled" four-day visit which began on Sunday.
The armed forces maintain unwavering to stick to their attitude with the aim of their Unit Run Canteens (URC) are outside the purview of the PAC.
"We still retain with the aim of URC is outside their purview. That is the basic circulation on which I venture the consideration or questioning will take place. We maintain certain our replies to them and give permission us find out how it goes tomorrow," Naik told reporters at this point.
The Army chief had already made it exonerate with the aim of he would be appearing by the Parliamentary Committee tomorrow.
"We maintain rebuff snag in appearing by the PAC. We are following the directives of the Defence Ministry. I will appear by the PAC on January 12," Singh had thought.
"We all ought to remember single gadget with the aim of we all are subject matter to Parliament. That is the organization of our supremacy. Nobody is exempt," Air chief Naik thought.
The PAC had called the chiefs of the three defence services in place of a consideration tomorrow based on a CAG tell which has pointed barred irregularities in the supply procession management of rations by CSD.
The Defence Ministry, which traditional the transfer, advised the service chiefs to appear by the PAC apparently to underline the committee's immense worth by the side of a schedule whilst the government is seeking to project it as a body as of great consequence as the Joint Parliamentary Committee following Opposition demand in place of JPC into 2G spectrum circulation.
Usually the Defence Secretary attends meetings of the Parliamentary Committees along with Vice Chiefs of the Services.
Highlighting the irregularities in the Canteen Stores Department, the CAG had thought, "The existing procedure in place of provisioning of dry rations abortive to assess the requirement faithfully. The failure was principally due to systemic deficiencies due to which diverse quantities were worked barred by the side of diverse echelons applying diverse parameters...."
The tell had thought with the aim of the venture of existence of "cartels" heartwarming the quantity and quality of rations is too serious to be disregarded.