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NEW DELHI, Mar 4: A huge country like India cannot remain dependent on import of military hardware as such dependency can be \u201cfatal\u201d for its strategic autonomy, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh<\/a> said on Tuesday, showcasing the Modi government\u2019s priority for boosting domestic manufacturing.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 In an address at a conference, Singh, without elaborating, also said that India had to face \u201ctrouble\u201d in \u201cdifficult times\u201d in the past due to its reliance on defence imports.<\/div>\n
He said the annual volume of domestic defence production has crossed the record figure of Rs 1 lakh crore which was nearly Rs 44,000 crore around 2014.<\/div>\n
\u201cWe will be able to maintain strategic autonomy only when arms and equipment are made in our own country, by our own people. We worked towards this, and we also saw positive results,\u201d Singh said.<\/div>\n
\u201cWhile around 2014, our domestic defence production was around Rs 44,000 crore, today our domestic defence production has crossed the record figure of Rs 1 lakh crore, and it is continuously growing,\u201d he said at the \u2018DefConnect 2024\u2019 conference.<\/div>\n
The defence minister said India cannot afford to remain dependent on imports in any important sector.<\/div>\n
\u201cA huge country like India cannot remain dependent on imports in any important sector. If we continue to rely on imports of defence equipment and arms, it will make us dependent on other countries. This dependency can be fatal for our strategic autonomy,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
Singh argued that without self-reliance in key areas, including defence, India will not be able to take independent positions on global issues in line with its national interests.<\/div>\n
\u201cUnder the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>, when our government came to power in 2014, we saw that a large part of India\u2019s defence hardware is imported. If a significant portion of a country\u2019s security related equipment is imported, then that country may have to face many difficulties in critical situations,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
\u201cThis has also happened with India in the past. When India was in difficult times, we faced trouble due to our dependence on imports for arms. Therefore, as soon as we came to government, we emphasised that as a nation we cannot remain dependent on arms imports,\u201d Singh said.<\/div>\n
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