Modernisation Delays Solved? India's New Defence Minister Also Controls The Funds!

[Agent_47]

The man expected to officially take charge as India's new Defence Minister is expected to hold the joint charge of Finance Minister. The implications of such an unusual dual charge are immediately apparent: quicker clearances, faster processing, and shorter lead time for modernisation, funds allocation and flexibility of budgetary proposals. The dual charge also makes Mr Jaitley one of the most powerful persons in the brand new Narendra Modi Cabinet in Delhi. In the early hours today, it had been speculated that Prime Minister Modi would keep the Defence portfolio with himself. The dual charge of Finance and Defence to Mr Jaitley signals the importance the new government could be placing on efficiency and swifter decisions.
The new leadership will soon receive presentations from the armed forces chiefs on priorities, both operational and modernisation related. This, coupled with inputs from former Chief of Army Staff, Gen (Retd) VK Singh, himself now a junior minister (in charge of North East Affairs) and former Minister of State in the MoD Rao Inderjit Singh, will be a template for forward movement on a littany of deals and proposals that have drifted endlessly for years with little or no clarity on when or how they'll end. Big hopes from a new dispensation. Let's see how it works out.

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[Koovie]

Well thats surely gonna make things easier

 

[arp2041]

Ya imagine, Mr. Jaitley talking to himself...................

DM Jaitley - Mr. Finance Minister, I want more funds for defense modernization.

FM Jaitley - Mr. Defense Minister, My hands are tied.

DM Jaitley - But, i can't see that.

FM Jaitely - not literally stupid!!

 

[Brahmos_2]

Brilliant.....

 

[Ayush]

that's great

 

[praveen007]

good thinking...

 

[sancho]

Just as in the case if Modi takes over the Defence ministry, too much power in one hand is not a good idea. If the DM is the same that controls the FM, it is much more likely that tax payers money will be wasted and that's definitely not in Indias interest.
And btw, it doesn't speed up the procurements either, since lack of funds hardly was the issue in most of the delays.

 

[DrSomnath999]

Just as in the case if Modi takes over the Defence ministry, too much power in one hand is not a good idea. If the DM is the same that controls the FM, it is much more likely that tax payers money will be wasted and that's definitely not in Indias interest.
And btw, it doesn't speed up the procurements either, since lack of funds hardly was the issue in most of the delays.

oh Yes!!

lack of funds was not the issue for the delays but surely the prevoius DM of UPA 2 was for sure the main factor for the delays

Mr Anthony surely in order to maintain his clean image has dumped all essential modernisation of our armed forces for this NDA government .

Now it's mr jatley's headache how to allot funds for all defence modernisation

Mr jaitley should thank mr anthony for making his work more easiear

CHEERS

 

[arp2041]

@Abingdonboy Jaitley himself confirmed that he is a temporary DM & there will be cabinet expansion in July. So we will have a new DM.

 

[spectribution]

Modi is the NEW Defence Minister. He is just using Jaitley's name as a business card holder to invite firms. ORganic Ministry concept I guess.

 

[Dash]

Just as in the case if Modi takes over the Defence ministry, too much power in one hand is not a good idea. If the DM is the same that controls the FM, it is much more likely that tax payers money will be wasted and that's definitely not in Indias interest.
And btw, it doesn't speed up the procurements either, since lack of funds hardly was the issue in most of the delays.

The Defense portfolio will get a new DM some time soon, most likely Modi himself will manage defence.
There is strong reason that Jaitly is eys and ear for Modi and whatver is close to Modi is with him. This is an interesting set up.
+ the erlier huddles in deals getting cleared by CCS have not been cleared by FM, this should remove the interface.

Jaitly handles DM and FM both as there is equal importance given to both by Modi.

 

[sancho]

The Defense portfolio will get a new DM some time soon, most likely Modi himself will manage defence.
There is strong reason that Jaitly is eys and ear for Modi and whatver is close to Modi is with him. This is an interesting set up.
+ the erlier huddles in deals getting cleared by CCS have not been cleared by FM, this should remove the interface.

Jaitly handles DM and FM both as there is equal importance given to both by Modi.

I have the feeling that it's also a cover up to strenghten Jaitly, after his loss in the elections. With this short term positioning he gets much "positive" PR, which wasn't the case in the last few weeks, since he was the only prominent BJP leader that lost even with the UPA punishing mood in India. And contrary to Smriti Irani's case, the loss was not even seen as positve, since she gave Rahul a good fight as the media says. So lets give Mr Jaitly some weeks to recover, but more importantly will be who really takes over as final DM and what the new policies of BJP will be in this regard.

 

[IND151]

@Abingdonboy Jaitley himself confirmed that he is a temporary DM & there will be cabinet expansion in July. So we will have a new DM.

Any source for claim?

 

[arp2041]

Any source for claim?

saw it on cnn ibn, jetley said this.

 

[Indischer]

saw it on cnn ibn, jetley said this.

Jetley?! Jet Li bhi likh do, kya jaane wala hai?