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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) said that 'Operation Sindoor' is the finest illustration of self-reliance successful India's defence assemblage arsenic the bulk of the instrumentality utilized during the cognition by the equipped forces was indigenous.
Mr. Singh was speaking astatine the 6th convocation of the Symbiosis Skills & Professional University successful Pune.
"We person started moving towards becoming atmanirbhar (self-reliant) successful the defence sector. In the archetypal phase, it was hard due to the fact that we were trying to alteration the full system. Since Independence, we had been babelike connected different countries for weapons. It had go a necessity for america to bargain defence instrumentality from abroad, and indigenous accumulation was astir non-existent," helium said.
India has present "broken the barrier" that had existed since Independence, the Minister said.
"We person fixed a beardown propulsion to manufacturing weapons wrong the country. This was not casual astatine all, arsenic the federation had slipped into a comfortableness portion regarding defence procurement. We had go addicted to buying weapons from different countries," helium said.
There was neither the "political will" to nutrient weapons domestically nor the ineligible model to beforehand defence manufacturing, Mr. Singh noted.
The younker of the state besides lacked the inspiration to assistance India go self-reliant successful this sector, the Defence Minister pointed out.
"The concern was not conducive for us; successful fact, it was adverse. But adjacent successful specified circumstances, we did not stop. We took each imaginable measurement to beforehand defence manufacturing, and today, those efforts are yielding disposable results," helium said.
"You indispensable person seen the bravery of our equipped forces during Operation Sindoor. Operation Sindoor is the finest illustration of self-reliance successful India's defence assemblage arsenic the bulk of the instrumentality utilized by the equipped forces was indigenous," helium added.
India launched Operation Sindoor successful May this year, successful the aftermath of the Pahalgam panic onslaught successful April which claimed the lives of 26 persons.
