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India's defence budget masks capital allocations to each service

The only way to estimate the capital allocation for each service is to calculate the allocations to each service over the preceding decade

India's defence budget masks capital allocations to each service
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Ajai Shukla New Delhi
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) this year presented the capital allocations for the defence budget in a new format, combining the capex budget for all three services into a single allocation, rather than allocating budgets for all the three services separately. As a result, Demand No. 21, pertaining to the “Capital Outlay on Defence Services” does not give out separate figures for each service — the army, navy and air force.
 
The only way to estimate the capital allocation for each service is to calculate the allocations to each service over the preceding decade. Then, by assuming that a similar

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