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SP's MAI Issue No. 3 | February 1-15, 2017 - Military Updates

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    MILITARY / EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
    Resurgent Indian defence industry

    In a rare media interaction with SP’s M.A.I., Ashok Kumar Gupta, Secretary, Defence Production, outlined his vision for defence manufacturing in India and addressed a wide range of subjects including ‘Make in India’, DPP 2016, defence offsets...

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    MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
    Make in India: Quo Vadis?
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    Only with a major overhaul of the bureaucratic establishment and the government machinery as a whole, will the highly mechanised lion representing the spirit...

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    MILITARY / REPORT
    India's Defence Budget 2017-18
    By Laxman Kumar Behera

    The Finance Minister’s overall stated figure of Rs. 2,74,114 crore is, however, not what the Ministry of Defence (MoD) considers as India’s official defence budget.

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    MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
    Defence budget 2017-18
    By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Defence has been allocated Rs. 2,74,114 crore ($42.17 billion) for fiscal year 2017-18. This does not include the pensions bill which itself is close to Rs. 85,000 crore per annum.

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    MILITARY / SPOTLIGHT
    Admiral Sunil Lanba visits Andaman & Nicobar Command

    Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) accompanied by Mrs. Reena Lanba...

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    MILITARY
    CNS Admiral Sunil Lanba reviews Tropex 2017

    Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba embarked ships of the Indian Fleet (both Western and Eastern) to review the ongoing Annual Theatre level Readiness and Operational Exercise (Tropex) 2017 which is presently underway since January 24, 2017.

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    MILITARY
    Visit of Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy

    Vice Admiral R.C. Wijegunaratne, Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, was on official visit to India from January 29 to February 2, 2017. The visit was aimed at consolidating bilateral naval relations between India and Sri Lanka and to explore new avenues...