.Due to these reasons, the defense budget may remain average!
Like the last several years, this time too there is not going to be any significant increase in the share of defense in GDP in the general budget. Last time it was decided to give 2.4 percent of GDP for defense. This time too the share of defense is going to be between 1.9 percent to two percent of GDP. This does not mean that the government of india is not paying attention to the strength of the defense sector or it is being ignored. It is also not that the strength of the defense sector is being affected due to not increasing the expenditure, but the truth is the opposite.
india is becoming self-reliant in defense production, cost is decreasing
One of the reasons for not increasing the budget in defense production too much in recent times is that india is gradually becoming self-reliant in defense production. It is even exporting in defense deals. Due to the manufacture of high-tech lethal weapons in the country itself, their cost is coming down. Weapons being made in the country at a low budget are also capable of killing the enemy from land and water to the sky.
For this reason, india imports only those weapons, defense equipment or defense technology which indian scientists or defense engineers have not been able to develop yet. Due to this, the indian army is becoming more powerful even though there is not much increase in the defense budget due to the decrease in defense imports from abroad.
india has the fourth largest defense budget in the world
After china, America and Russia, india has the fourth largest defense budget in the world. However, most of the three countries with a higher defense budget than india spend on advanced technology such as artificial intelligence or cyber warfare. In india, a large part of the defense budget is spent on modernization and armed force personnel. However, due to the increasing threat from china in recent times, india has started important initiatives to deal with cyber warfare and AI-based advanced defense technology.
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