The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence can bring much needed clarity on India's national security that Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget didn’t answer.
How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.
After negative growth in 2022-23, air cargo volumes grew 18% year-on-year from October 2023 to March 2024 and 20% year-on-year from April 2024 to August 2024.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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)