Amit Cowshish

–The writer is a former Financial Advisor (Acquisition), Ministry of Defence. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda

Defence Budget 2020-21, Indigenisation and Exports

Amit Cowshish - April 25, 2020

In her budget speech last year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had flagged defence manufacturing as one of the ten thrust areas in the government’s vision for the coming decade. The budget outlay of 2019-20,...

Finance Commission to Look Into the Problem of Defence Funding

Amit Cowshish - November 2, 2019

Taking note of the persistent underfunding of defence, the union cabinet decided to tread a new path in a bid to resolve the problem. In July this year, it asked the Fifteenth Finance Commission...

The Future of ‘Make in India’ in Defence Amid a Fluid Political Atmosphere

Amit Cowshish - October 16, 2018

MORE THAN four years after the prime minster gave the call to convert India into a manufacturing hub while delivering his first Independence Day speech, there is little evidence of the ‘Make in India’...

Defence Production and Acquisition: The impact of recent reforms

Amit Cowshish - July 13, 2018

NEW DELHI. More than two years after the defence procurement procedure was tweaked to galvanise Make in India in defence, there is little evidence of a turnaround in domestic production of the defence equipment....

Defence Manufacturing in India: Past, Present and Future

Amit Cowshish - April 24, 2018

AT THE time of its independence, India inherited the defence production capability created by the British over the years initially to sustain their hold over the sub-continent and later to sustain their war efforts...

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