Defence Exports To Cross Rs 20,000-Crore Mark Soon, Says Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh inaugurated 90 Infrastructure Projects constructed by the Border Road Organisation (BRO) with a cost of Rs 2941 cr on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that in the last financial year, the country's domestic defence production record had crossed Rs 1 lakh crores and the defence export record had crossed Rs 60,000 crores. "Very soon, I will be able to say that our export has reached Rs 20 thousand crores," he said while speaking at the 'North Tech Symposium 2023' organised by the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) at IIT Jammu.

"In the last financial year, our domestic defence production record has crossed Rs 1 lakh crores and the defence export record has crossed Rs 60 thousand crores. Very soon, I will be able to say that our export has reached Rs 20 thousand crores," Rajnath Singh, who arrived in Jammu to inaugurate and dedicate 90 Infrastructure Projects to the country constructed by Border Road Organisation (BRO) with a cost of Rs 2941 cr said on Tuesday.

He added, "The defence manufacturing sector of the country is imaginative, innovative, dynamic and progressive. I have realised this after watching the exhibition."

Rajnath Singh arrived in Jammu earlier in the day and was received by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha at the airport.

Singh inaugurated the state-of-the-art 422.9 metre Devak bridge on the Bishnah-Kaulpur-Phulpur Road in Samba district besides 89 other projects virtually.

The BRO projects include 22 roads, 63 bridges, one tunnel, two airstrips and two helipads across 10 border states and Union Territories of northern and northeastern regions constructed under challenging weather conditions, at most inhospitable terrain locations, a spokesperson of the BRO said.

Of the 89 projects inaugurated virtually, 36 are in Arunachal Pradesh, 25 in Ladakh, 11 are in Jammu and Kashmir, five in Mizoram, three in Himachal Pradesh, two each in Sikkim, Uttarakhand and West Bengal and one each in Nagaland, Rajasthan and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the official said.

Last year, 103 BRO infrastructure projects were completed at a cost of Rs 2,897 crore while in 2021, 102 BRO infrastructure projects were dedicated to the nation at a cost of Rs 2,229 crore.