3708 Bugbears: The three areas of prime concern in the charter of General Rawat (left) relate to jointry, acquisitions and administration. PTI
Gp Capt Murli Menon (Retd)
Defence analyst
Two decades after the Kargil Review Committee (KRC) and the consequent Group of Ministers recommended the creation of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), and eight years after the Naresh Chandra Committee recommended a permanent chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, the Indian government instituted the first CDS in January 2020.
Tasked essentially with promoting inter-service jointry and giving much-needed fillip to defence modernisation through timely and optimal defence acquisitions, the first incumbent to the post, General Bipin Rawat, has not given a lackadaisical performance, however contentious his initiatives have turned out to be so far.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a meeting of External Affairs Committee of Parliamentary Affairs asked if the world becomes bi-polar how India will deal with it.
India s 2021-22 Defence Budget Needs Honest Financial Reckoning, Not Empty Rhetoric
Over the decades, successive finance ministers have routinely promised that there will be no shortage of funds for the armed forces, but the reality remains otherwise.
Indian army officers stand on vehicles displaying missiles during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, India, January 26, 2016. REUTERS/Altaf Hussain
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Indiaâs military faces a massive financial predicament in the fiscal year 2021-22, as it remains locked in a costly faceoff with Chinaâs Peopleâs Liberation Army (PLA) along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
To meet this forbidding challenge, that shows no sign of abating, all three services are believed to have already executed emergency purchases of over $2 billion since June 2020 to plug enduring equipment and ammunition shortages, adversely upsetting budgetary calculations. It is undeniable that the services will require vast
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (File Photo)
Rahul Gandhi urges Lok Sabha Speaker to protect right of MPs to speak freely at house panel meetings By Siddharth Sharma | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 20:01 IST
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The Rahul Panel Meet row took a new turn on Thursday when Congress MP Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter to Lok Sabha SpeakerOm Birla saying that he was not allowed to speak freely at the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and sought his intervention.
In his letter, Gandhi urged the Speaker to ensure that the right of elected MPs to speak freely in parliamentary panel meetings was protected and being a guardian of the house, the Speaker should ensure that discussions and presentations in the panel on defence were in consonance with its role and objectives.