The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence can bring much needed clarity on India's national security that Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget didn’t answer.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
The wrong notion is spread all across the nation about rising pension bill in defence . Very few know the ex servicemen accounts for a fraction of it . Majority is paid for civil employees employed in defence PSU & Defence units , hq etc.
Being a vote bank no one questions them who enjoys salary with promotions till 60 years of age , late Robert get handsome pension And also get their dependent a govt job . Demarcate separate bills for defence and defence PSU and associated parasites in defence
Deja but all the way!!! Any line item in the budget, outside of pensions for combatants, not directly contributing to operational readiness needs to be refactoring out of the defence heads. This includes pay and pensions for estates, CDA, etc (four lakh civilians approx), and non-combat related research. FYI. Not one of the 13 mission mode projects of DRDO met the deadlines for delivery (MOD ref , visit URL 164.100.47.193/lsscommittee/Estimates/16_Estimates_29.pdf)
Valid questions must be asked. Good article with analysis.
Things should be more transparent.
The wrong notion is spread all across the nation about rising pension bill in defence . Very few know the ex servicemen accounts for a fraction of it . Majority is paid for civil employees employed in defence PSU & Defence units , hq etc.
Being a vote bank no one questions them who enjoys salary with promotions till 60 years of age , late Robert get handsome pension And also get their dependent a govt job . Demarcate separate bills for defence and defence PSU and associated parasites in defence
Deja but all the way!!! Any line item in the budget, outside of pensions for combatants, not directly contributing to operational readiness needs to be refactoring out of the defence heads. This includes pay and pensions for estates, CDA, etc (four lakh civilians approx), and non-combat related research. FYI. Not one of the 13 mission mode projects of DRDO met the deadlines for delivery (MOD ref , visit URL 164.100.47.193/lsscommittee/Estimates/16_Estimates_29.pdf)