Operation Sindoor of India has surprised Pakistan. 9 locations of Pakistan have been targeted. Many terrorists have been killed by making terrorist organizations like Jaish and Lashkar a sign. Well, this is a trailer. India has not yet shown its real strength to Pakistan. If we talk only on the defense budget, then India’s defense budget is about 3 times more than the defense budget of Pakistan. 24 hours ago, news came that Pakistan will increase its defense budget by 18 percent in the upcoming budget session. Even after that, India’s defense budget will be seen much more in Pakistan’s budget. Let us also tell you how much money India spends on defense every year and what is the condition of Pakistan’s defense budget?
How much is India’s defense budget
First, if we talk about the defense budget of India, then there has been a continuous increase in it. India’s defense budget is worth 6.81 lakh crore rupees in FY 2025-26. In which 10 percent more in the previous year’s match. Whereas in FY 2024-25, the country’s defense budget was Rs 6,21,941 crore. At the same time, in the financial year 2023-24, the country’s defense budget was seen at Rs 5,54,875 crore. On the other hand, in the financial year 2022-23, the country’s defense budget was 5.25 lakh crore rupees. This means that in the last 4 years, the country’s defense budget has seen a 30 percent increase. In the coming years, there has been further increase in the country’s defense budget.
Some important figures of India’s defense budget
- India’s defense budget has been increased by 4.65 percent for capital expenses. Which includes the purchase of military equipment, modernization and associated with it. The total budget of capital expenditure is Rs 1,80,000 crore.
- 3,11,731 crore has been kept for revenue expenses, which is 9.29 percent more than the previous budget. It will be spent on salary and everyday needs.
- The defense budget also contains a civil experience. For which Rs 28,682 crore has been kept. Which is 10.47 percent more than last time.
- The defense budget is 1.91 percent of the total projected GDP. 13,000 crore rupees were also returned from the capital budget given in the last budget.
- On the other hand, the budget allocation for DRDO has been increased by about 12 percent to Rs 26,816 crore as compared to the previous time.
Pakistan also increased defense budget
On the other hand, there has been an increase in Pakistan’s defense budget with India. According to the report, due to tension with India, Pakistan’s coalition government has supported an increase in defense spending by 18 per cent to more than 2.5 trillion rupees in the next budget. The government is going to present a budget of 2025-26 in the first week of next month before the start of the new financial year from July 1. The tension between India and Pakistan has increased since the terror attack on April 22 in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. 26 people were killed in this attack.
Express tribune said that the delegation led by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his economic team on Monday to discuss budget matters. The government led by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) shared a new budget structure of about 17.5 trillion rupees with its leading colleague PPP, which agreed to increase the defense expenditure by 18 percent. The newspaper quoted sources as saying that due to the recent wave of tension with India, there was a consensus to increase the defense budget between PML-N and PPP.
He said that in view of the existing security threats, the PPP supported the proposal to increase the defense budget by 18 percent to more than 2.5 trillion rupees. In the current financial year 2024-25, the government allocated Rs 2,122 billion for defense spending, which reflects an increase of Rs 14.98 per cent from Rs 1,804 billion from Rs 1,804 billion made for the outgoing FY 2023-24. After the loan payment, the cost of the defense sector is the second largest component of the annual experience. In the current year, 9,700 billion rupees allocated for loan repayments are the country’s largest expenditure.