Jul 26, 2024 12:57 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned the armed forces have made an inventory of weapons and army tools that may now not be imported
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday mentioned reforms have been the primary precedence within the defence sector over the past 10 years, which have made the armed forces extra succesful and self-reliant in addition to serving to India make its mark as an arms exporter after being a weapons importer.
“Resulting from reforms, our forces have develop into extra succesful and self-reliant. India was as soon as counted as a rustic importing arms. Now India is making its mark as an exporter,” mentioned Modi in his speech after visiting the struggle memorial at Dras to pay tribute to the lads who laid their lives combating Pakistani intruders in Kargil in 1999.
He mentioned the armed forces have made an inventory of weapons and army tools that may now not be imported. “Right this moment, a major share of protection procurement is from the Indian business,” he mentioned. He added that 25% of the analysis and improvement funds in protection has been reserved for the non-public sector. “India’s protection manufacturing has now exceeded ₹1.25 lakh crore.”
Modi mentioned the nation felt the necessity for main reforms within the protection sector for many years. “The Military had been demanding this however sadly it was not given sufficient significance earlier. Within the final 10 years, we’ve got made reforms a prime precedence within the protection sector.”
He mentioned the historical past of these deceptive the youth of the nation is proof that they don’t care about troopers. “These are the identical individuals who lied about OROP…It’s our authorities that applied it. Greater than ₹1.25 lakh crore was given to ex-servicemen,” he mentioned, referring to the one rank, one pension (OROP) scheme, which was applied in November 2015 with impact from July 2014, fulfilling decades-old demand of protection pensioners.
The Union Cupboard in December 2022 accepted the revision of the pension of ex-servicemen and household pensioners beneath the OROP scheme. With that, round 2.5 million protection pensioners turned eligible for arrears.