New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has approved the much-awaited strategic partnership model which will allow local private sector companies to form manufacturing joint ventures with foreign defence equipment makers—a shot in the arm for the government’s ‘Make in India’ programme as well as efforts by …
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MSMEs can boost India’s defence exports with policy support
India is one of the largest importers of conventional defence equipment and spends about 31.1% of its total defence budget on capital acquisitions and about 60% of its defence requirements being import dependent. Between 2006-10 and 2011-15 India’s defence imports increased by almost 90 per…