Defence budget under capital head fully utilised in FY2025-26

NEW DELHI: The defence ministry has afloat utilised its superior outlay of Rs 1.86 lakh crore (revised estimate) for FY2025-26. In FY2024-25 too, the ministry had utilised its superior fund fully.

The wide usage of the defence budget, including MoD (civil) and pension, during FY2025-26 stood astatine 99.62 per cent.The archetypal appropriation for superior expenditure successful the fiscal was Rs 1.8 lakh crore, which was raised by concern ministry successful presumption of the gait of expenditure achieved by defence ministry during the archetypal 2 quarters and fixed the accrued request of forces for modernisation and different purposes post-Op Sindoor, a ministry’s merchandise said.A important information of the expenditure was towards acquisition of craft and aero engines, followed by onshore systems, physics warfare equipment, armaments, shipbuilding, aviation stores and projectiles. Also included were proposals for acquisition of multi-role combatant aircraft, medium-altitude long-endurance remotely piloted craft for IAF, excavation antagonistic measurement vessels for Navy, and quick-reaction surface-to-air rocket strategy and Nag rocket strategy Mark-2 for Army.

In fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26, acceptance of necessity for 109 proposals amounting to Rs 6.81 lakh crore was accorded by defence ministry, compared to 56 proposals worthy Rs 1.76 lakh crore approved successful FY2024-25. Also, superior procurement contracts for a full of 503 proposals amounting to Rs 2.28 lakh crore were signed by the ministry successful FY2025-26.With a hike of 22%, the fund has allocated Rs 2.19 lakh crore nether superior caput for FY2026-27.