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The Agneepath scheme, launched by India’s Defence Ministry, would annually recruit about 45,000 young people aged 17.5 to 21 years for a four-year period, which will include six months of basic training and a monthly income of Rs 30,000 to 40,000. As with the regular cadre of soldiers, airmen, and ...

Department of ex-servicemen welfare, Ministry of Defence, GoI, has a scheme to provide financial assistance to  non-pensioner Ex-Servicemen (ESM) who are in a state of penury (poverty). Objective The aim of this aid is to provide a small measure of relief from total penury to a non-pensioner ESM and their ...

The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC)-top acquisition body of the Defence Ministry has agreed Acceptance of Necessity (AON)  to the Indian Air Force’s proposal of acquiring 244 air defence guns worth Rs. 7,000 crore which will be installed in significant locations including top metro cities. The DAC has also shown green ...

The government is planning to do away with the process of awarding contract to lowest bidder while acquiring high-tech defence assets and instead entering into “strategic partnership” with Indian private firms in six critical sectors including missiles. The Defence Ministry has set up a high powered committee headed by former ...

From Israeli sniper and assault rifles to European “underwater open-circuit diving equipment”, the Special Forces of the armed forces are slowly but surely inducting specialised weaponry and equipment for their clandestine warfare and counter-terrorism operations. Defence ministry has said the latest acquisition is the Rs 27 crore contract for 65 ...

News: The defence ministry has invited 10 companies to bid for a Rs 60,000-crore project to manufacture futuristic infantry combat vehicles (FICVs) in India. Several major players like Tata, Mahindra, Larsen and Toubro, Pipavav, Bharat Forge and Punj Lloyd have been asked by the defence ministry to submit their bids ...