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Defence industry of India

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The Defence industry of India is a strategically important sector in India. With strength of over 1.3 million active personnel, it is world's 3rd largest military force and has the world's largest volunteer army. The total budget sanctioned for the Indian military for the financial year 2015 is 2.47 trillion Indian rupees ($40.07 billion).

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Military budget

The military budget of India is about 2.4% for year 2015 of the total GDP as per World Bank statistics. The defence expenditure for Fisical year 2017-18 allotted by Ministry of Finance is,excluding pensions a sum of 2,74,114 crores but including 86,488 crores for Defence capital.

State orders

India has been spending worth nearly $3.5 billion to boost its ageing Soviet era military equipment. It has been pushing for greater indigenisation of the military industry as India imports around 70 per cent of its defence hardware mainly from Russia, Japan Israel and United States.

Organisations

The production of Indian defence equipments prior to 2011 was completely in the hands of the Government of India. The Government of India also opened up the Foreign direct investment to 49% from the existing 26% and thereby increasing flow of funds from foreign countries. With the increase in FDI cap, private players such as companies from many developed countries will also be attracted to the Indian defence economy as they can have share in the Indian defence Companies.

Private

  • Tata Group
  • Mahindra Group
  • Reliance Industries
  • Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
  • Bharat Forge
  • Hinduja Group
  • Larsen & Toubro
  • Godrej
  • Make in India

    The Modi government in its first year cleared 39 capital procurement proposals, of which 32 proposals worth 889 billion (US$13 billion) (or 96% of value of total proposals) were categorized as Buy (Indian) and Buy and Make (Indian)—the top two prioritized domestic industry-centric procurement categories as per the defence procurement procedure (DPP).

    In July 2015, the defence ministry eased export regulations and stopped demanding multiple assurances on end-use from foreign governments even for sale of components by Indian entities.

    References

    Defence industry of India Wikipedia