Budget 2025: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha on Saturday 1 February 2025. In this budget, many big announcements have been made for various fields including youth, women, education and health. Budget 2025 has also made a big allocation for the defense sector. A budget of Rs 6.8 lakh crore has been announced for the defense sector of India in the Union Budget 2025. Let’s know in detail about the defense budget.
What did the defense sector get in the budget?
In the Union Budget 2025, a total budget of Rs 6.8 lakh crore has been announced for defense ie defense sector. According to the information, this budget is 1.91 percent of the estimated GDP. In the defense budget of Rs 6.8 lakh crore, Rs 1.8 lakh crore has been kept for the capital budget. Explain that new weapons, aircraft, warships and other military decorations will be purchased from this amount.
Understand the distribution of budget here
In the Union Budget 2025-26, a record of more than Rs 6.81 lakh crore has been allocated for the Ministry of Defense. It has increased by 9.53%. Rs 1.80 lakh crore has been allocated under the capital budget of the armed forces. Modernization of the army in the budget is a major focus area. 1.12 lakh crore has been set for purchase from domestic industries. The allocation for defense pension has been increased by 14%. 8,317 crore has been allocated for ECHS. Defense Research and Development Budget has been increased by 12%. The capital budget of ICG has a significant increase of 43%. BRO has been allocated Rs 7,146 crore under the Capital Head.
How much was the budget last year?
In the budget 2024, Rs 6.21 lakh crore was allocated to the Ministry of Defense of India. This amount was 4.79 percent higher than FY 2023-24. Then A total of Rs 5.94 lakh crore was allocated a budget. That is, this time in the budget of 2025, the share of the defense sector has been increased by about 60 thousand crores.
How much is the budget of other countries?
India’s neighboring country China announced a $ 225 billion defense budget last year. At the same time, another neighbor Pakistan had proposed to increase the defense budget to Rs 1.8 lakh crore last year. This was about 1.7 percent of Pakistan’s GDP (GDP). At the same time, America is the largest defense budget in the world. According to Global Fire Power, the US defense budget is worth $ 895 billion.
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