“Is India Defence Self-Reliance Under Siege? How Emergency Buys and Bureaucratic Loopholes Undermine Local Military Industries”, Defence Capital, November 01, 2025
“When the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 introduced the Buy (Indian–IDDM) category — short for Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured — it marked a bold step toward genuine self-reliance in defence production.
The man behind this visionary reform, then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, wanted to ensure that Indian ingenuity would finally take centre stage in equipping the nation’s armed forces.
However, nearly a decade later, that dream stands at a crossroads. What was meant to empower India’s defence innovators is now being systematically diluted, ironically, from within the same corridors of power that once championed it…..”
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