{"id":209141,"date":"2023-02-02T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T01:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=209141"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T01:51:18","slug":"indias-military-expenditure-goes-up-13-per-cent-in-new-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=209141","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s military expenditure goes up 13 per cent in new budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 2\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; India&#8217;s military expenditure has gone up by 13 per cent in the national budget for financial year\u00a02023-24\u00a0starting April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has allocated 5.93 trillion rupees for the defence sector compared with 5.25 trillion rupees in the 2022-23 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of US dollars, military spending for 2023-24 will be about US$72.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capital expenditure, meant for weapons and modernisation, is about US$19.9 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revenue expenditure, which includes salaries and money spent on maintenance of facilities, is US$33 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 2\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) &#8212; India&#8217;s military expenditure has gone up by 13 per cent in the national budget for financial year\u00a02023-24\u00a0starting April. The government has allocated 5.93 trillion rupees for the defence sector compared with 5.25 trillion rupees in the 2022-23 budget. In terms of US dollars, military spending for 2023-24 will be about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209142,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209141\/revisions\/209142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}