Procurement of defence equipment is undertaken from various Indian as well as foreign vendors based on threat perceptions, operational challenges and technological changes and to keep the Armed Forces in     a state of readiness to meet the entire spectrum of security challenges.  The capital expenditure on purchase of defence equipment for the three services in the last three years and current financial year, from the Foreign vendors and Indian vendors is as given below:-

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE:

(Rs. in crore)

	Total Procurement	Procurement from Foreign Vendors	Procurement from Indian Vendora
2013-14	66821.21	35245.31	31575.90
2014-15	65583.77	25984.86	39598.91
2015-16	62341.86	23192.22	39149.64
2016-17 (upto December 2016)	47494.79	21211.44	26283.35

 

The details of imports of defence equipment during the last three years and the current year, country-wise, are being compiled and will be laid on the Table of the House.

No targets are fixed for import of defence equipment, and there is no year-wise budget earmarked for the purpose, Defence equipment are procured from foreign vendors based on operational requirements indicated by the Armed Forces.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shri K.N. Ramachandran in Lok Sabha today.

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