{"id":13773,"date":"2020-08-10T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2020-08-10T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:12:45","slug":"tmc-questions-defence-sector-reforms-says-ordnance-factories-undermined-in-past-5-years-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13773","title":{"rendered":"TMC questions defence sector reforms, says ordnance factories undermined in past 5 years &#8211; kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A day after the Centre imposed restrictions on import of 101 weapons and military platforms, the Trinamool Congress on Monday sought to know if the country\u2019s defence industry has the ability to produce these items.<\/p>\n<p>Senior TMC leader and the party\u2019s national spokesperson Saugata Roy said the central government should create a \u201cproper roadmap\u201d to make India\u2019s indigenous defence sector self-reliant.<\/p>\n<p>In a major reform initiative to boost the domestic defence industry,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/rajnath-singh-announces-embargo-on-import-of-101-defence-items-here-s-the-full-list\/story-GFYz2cBxsbxvyFMrEif6sN.html\" title=\" Defence Minister Rajnath Singh \"> Defence Minister Rajnath Singh <\/a>on Sunday announced restrictions on import of 101 weapons and military platforms including artillery guns, assault rifles, transport aircraft and sonar systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement might sound good, but there are a few things that have to be looked into. The Centre has put an embargo on 101 items, but the question remains whether our indigenous defence sector has the ability to produce those items. If not, what is the Union government doing to enhance its capabilities,\u201d the senior TMC leader told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, a veteran parliamentarian and former union minister, claimed that attempts have been made to undermine the countrys ordnance factories over the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn one hand, you talk of \u2018Atmanirbhar Bharat\u2019 (self- reliant India) and on the other, you weaken our ordnance factories instead of strengthening them. This is unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts should be made to build fighter jets, submarines and other high-end defence products in India, the Lok Sabha MP from Dum Dum insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the country lacks capability, foreign companies will set up units in India and sell their products to us. That won\u2019t serve the purpose. The government must come up with a proper roadmap to make the defence sector self-reliant,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The defence minister had on Sunday said that the domestic defence industry would receive contracts worth almost Rs four lakh crore within the next five to seven years as a result of the decision to prune the import list of military platforms and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that all necessary steps will be taken to ensure that timelines for domestic production of equipment identified under the negative list for import are met, adding the measures will include a co-ordinated mechanism for hand- holding of the industry by the defence services.<\/p>\n<p><!--   section:kolkata mainSection:cities\/kolkata-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/kolkata\/tmc-questions-defence-sector-reforms-says-ordnance-factories-undermined-in-past-5-years\/story-cpBn7nfNIPsidc5F1KQYFN.html\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Centre imposed restrictions on import of 101 weapons and military platforms, the Trinamool Congress on Monday sought to know if the country\u2019s defence industry has the ability to produce these items. Senior TMC leader and the party\u2019s national spokesperson Saugata Roy said the central government should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6061d4e6-dae8-11ea-a145-8bf15479dae6.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}