Defence allocation likely to go up by 20%

[Varunastra]

it is prety easy, cut off 10 million people's daily meal from 2 times to 1 .

You Chinese guys only eat two times a day !!

 

[pigtaker]

You Chinese guys only eat two times a day !!

no,it is 4 times. so we have fatest increasing rate of fat guys in the world, it is not good for us.

 

[Varunastra]

no,it is 4 times. so we have fatest increasing rate of fat guys in the world, it is not good for us.

Ans we are the third most obese country in the world

 

[pigtaker]

Ans we are the third most obese country in the world

I don't know. if it is true, are you proud of that?

 

[Varunastra]

I don't know. if it is true, are you proud of that?

Nope

 

[-1o1-]

Where is the money going to come from?

money is contributed by hard earned illegal bangladeshis happy?

 

[ice bomb]

We are just spending 1.7% of our GDP on defence so there is plenty of scope. Money is not a problem for us.

That is BS. India spends 2,4 % (2009-2013). To claim that money is not a problem is just bravado. All military expenditures need to be balanced with other needs.

Military expenditure (% of GDP) | Data | Table

 

[HariPrasad]

And do what?? Hire an additional 1000 people to sit idol and enjoy the luxuries of Govt job?

DRDO requires a major revamp, from the way its funtioning currently.

That is a different discussion. You know the Akash missile whose R & D cost around 500 crores has got an order of above Rs 30000 crore. CHina spends 20% of her defense budget on R&D. We just spend 5%.

 

[Tshering22]

Ideally it should be somewhere between 2.5-3% .

The point is not about having the allocation but spending it judiciously. Remember the last three years entire defence budget of even 1.7% was not spent and money was returned to finance ministry causing imbalances.

The point is, we need to ramp up domestic manufacturing and development while focus on buying from outside what we had earlier committed to the forces.

That is BS. India spends 2,4 % (2009-2013). To claim that money is not a problem is just bravado. All military expenditures need to be balanced with other needs.

Military expenditure (% of GDP) | Data | Table

You clearly don't remember what happened in the last three years after the previous government scaled down defence expenditure to 1.7%.

 

[SwAggeR]

The point is not about having the allocation but spending it judiciously. Remember the last three years entire defence budget of even 1.7% was not spent and money was returned to finance ministry causing imbalances.

The point is, we need to ramp up domestic manufacturing and development while focus on buying from outside what we had earlier committed to the forces.



You clearly don't remember what happened in the last three years after the previous government scaled down defence expenditure to 1.7%.

Or at least there should be a rule to carry forward the unspent allocated budget.

 

[Tshering22]

Or at least there should be a rule to carry forward the unspent allocated budget.

That will mess up Jaitley's calculations. The money allocated must be spent judiciously and not left rusting.