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The Parliament’s Standing Committee on Defense, while presenting the report in the Lok Sabha, has said that it can be dangerous to cut the army’s budget amid tension on the border. The committee said that for the year 2022-23, a provision of Rs 2.15 lakh crore was made for the army under the capital head, but the allocation was only Rs 1.52 lakh crore. Before reading the news, you can participate in this poll of ours…
The capital head is the most important part in terms of the strength of the army. From this things like weapons, ammunition, fighter planes are bought. The chairman of this committee is BJP MP Jual Oraon. At the same time, 30 MPs including Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar are its members.
In its report, the committee has mentioned the increasing threat from neighboring Pakistan and China. The committee has recommended that special attention should be paid to military modernization.
Received less money than 2021-22 to buy weapons
The committee said that the Army had demanded Rs 46,844 crore, but it has received only Rs 32,115 crore. Similarly, the Air Force got Rs 56,852 crore instead of Rs 85,323 crore and the Navy got Rs 47,591 crore instead of Rs 67,623 crore. In the year 2021-22, the Air Force got Rs 53 thousand crores, the Army got 36 thousand crores and the Navy got 33 thousand crores.
Fund to be created soon for military modernization
The committee further said that we have considered the proposal of the cabinet note, in which it has been said to create a separate fund for military modernization. The committee said that our demand is that the government should approve it at the earliest, so that the army can get more budget for modernization.
The committee has said in the report that the government has cut Rs 63 thousand crore in arms purchase, which is wrong.
Tension continues on the border with China since 2020
India’s tension with China has continued since the military skirmish in Galwan Valley in June 2020. There have been 15 rounds of talks between the two countries to establish peace, but there has been no talk of establishing complete peace.