A Big decision of Ministry of Defense - Prohibition on import of 101 devices!

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Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has made an important announcement. The Defense Minister has said that the Ministry of Defense is now ready to take forward the initiative of self-reliant India. The ministry has prepared a list of 101 defense devices whose imports will be banned. He said that production in the defense sector will be encouraged. The Defense Minister said that this is a major step towards India's self-reliance in the defense sector.


Let me tell you that Rajnath Singh said that the Ministry of Defense is ready to take big steps to take forward the self-reliant India initiative. 101 The decision to ban the import of defense materials will provide huge opportunities to the Indian defense industry. The list of 101 items marked for import restrictions includes cannon, assault rifles, transport aircraft.

The Defense Minister said that the three armies awarded these goods under the 260 schemes between April 2015 and August 2020 for Rs 3.5 lakh crore. It is estimated that the domestic industry will get contracts worth about Rs 4 lakh crore in the next 6-7 years. The Defense Minister informed that steps will be taken to ensure domestic production deadline for military goods marked for a ban on imports. More defense equipment will be phased out to ban imports.