India has exported defence items worth over Rs 2,600 crore since 2010, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said today.
In a written reply to a question on the export of defence items by India in Rajya Sabha, he said, defence exports by Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and private sector companies (based on NOCs) totalled Rs 290.51 crore in 2010-11.
In 2011-12, it was Rs 512.48 crore which dropped to Rs 446.75 crore in 2012-13, Parrikar said.
In 2013-14, the value of defence exports totalled 686.27 crore, which again dropped to Rs 669.88 crore in 2014-15.
Parikkar, while giving statistics, also said that percentage of 'Procurement from Indigenous sources' out of total procurement in the same period stood between 59.01 per cent to 80.34 per cent.
