{"id":57976,"date":"2025-08-09T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57976\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:51:08","slug":"defence-production-has-soared-to-an-all-time-high-of-1-5l-cr-says-rajnath-singh-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57976\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence production has soared to an all-time high of 1.5L cr, says Rajnath Singh | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123210670.jpg\" alt=\"Defence production has soared to an all-time high of 1.5L cr, says Rajnath Singh\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s annual defence production has &#8220;soared to an all-time high figure&#8221; of over Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the 2024-25 financial year, defence minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rajnath-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rajnath Singh<\/a> said on Saturday, terming the upward trajectory a clear indicator of the country&#8217;s strengthening defence industrial base.&#8221;These numbers indicate a robust 18% growth over the previous fiscal&#8217;s output of Rs 1.2 lakh crore, and a staggering 90% increase since 2019-20, when the figure was Rs 79,071 crore,&#8221; Singh said.The landmark has been achieved due to the efforts of MoD&#8217;s deptt of defence production and all stakeholders, including defence PSUs, other public sector manufacturers and private industry. Defence exports have also risen, reaching Rs 23,622 crore in 2024-25. Defence PSUs and other PSUs accounted for 77% of total production, while private sector contributed 23%, up from 21% in 2023-24. &#8220;Share of private sector reflects its growing role in country&#8217;s defence ecosystem,&#8221; an official said.Both segments of the industry have shown consistent year-on-year growth due to policy reforms, improved ease of doing business and a strategic focus on indigenisation over the past decade. &#8220;Emphasis on reducing import dependence and building a defence industrial complex that caters to domestic needs as yielded positive results,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s annual defence production has &#8220;soared to an all-time high figure&#8221; of over Rs 1.5 lakh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[879,45,49,48,38308,38305,38306,46,8799,1799,38307,7233,8797,38304,8798],"class_list":["post-57976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-defence-exports-india","tag-defence-industrial-base-india","tag-defence-production-growth-2024","tag-economy","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-defence-production","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-rajnath-singh","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}