Defence Budget, Capability and Perspective Planning for the Indian Armed Forces
Manish Kumar Jha
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The government of India announced a defence budget of Rs 6.81 trillion for 2025-26, roughly (USD78.4 billion). The MoD said the new budget represents about 13.5% of total annual government expenditure and an increase of 9.5% over the defence budget for 2024–25. ?The capital budget for modernisation—procuring new fighter jets, drones, artillery guns, tanks, and helicopters—remains at Rs 1.80 lakh crore. ?The Prime Minister has laid out his vision for self-reliance in military technology and achieving scale in critical and advanced technology for India by 2047.
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So I bring together leading military leaders from Integrated Defence Staff (IDS, HQ) to have a joint vision, doctrine, jointness and integration for capabilities and how the defence budget embraces that or vice versa. Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (PP & FD) at HQ IDS and Lt Gen Vipul Shinghal, Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (DOT) at HQ IDS.
IDS has come up with some great moves, establishing Cyber and Space as an integral part of the Armed Forces in a short time. The complexity of jointness, force structuring and capability development, and technology management, is no easy task, especially the impeccable legacy. However, it must go faster.
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Further on Defence Budget, the Standing Committee on Defence (2018) recommended that the Ministry of Defence should be allocated a fixed budget of about 3% of GDP. In 2025-26, India is estimated to spend 1.9% of its GDP on defence. The capital outlay has remained below 30% of the defence budget.?But here is the caveat: Rs 13000 crore is returned which could not be spent. So, the budget looks sufficient within such provisions. However, the higher thrust and greater budget on defence R&D is something India has to plan out --very seriously.
Do we need to look at China's budget? With $296 billion China spent 3.4 per cent of its GDP on the military. But that is not a statistical comparison, it is about how China has prioritized its R&D, reverse engineering, and advanced production to staggering proportions and all we can see is their military transformation.
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