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Defence Acquisition Procedure 2026: Reforming India’s Defence Procurement and the Role of Acquisition Deliberations

From DPP to DAP. India’s defence capital acquisition system initially operated without a single formal procedure. A basic framework had existed since 1992, but the first structured Defence Procurement Procedure, DPP 2002, came into force on 30 December 2002 and applied to “Buy” decisions of the Defence Acquisition Council (CAG, Defence Audit, cag.gov.in). Over the next 18 years, the procedure was revised eight times, in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016. These revisions gradually expanded the framework, introducing offsets in 2005, “Make” and shipbuilding categories in 2006, and stronger indigenous content requirements in 2013 (CGDA, DPP 2013). In 2020, DPP was renamed the Defence Acquisition Procedure, DAP 2020, reflecting the shift towards Atmanirbhar Bharat. It introduced an import embargo list, a 50% Indian ownership requirement for “Indian Vendor” status, the Buy (Global Manufacture in India) route and provisions for leasing defence equipment (PIB, Ministry of Defence).

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Tamil Nadu’s Old Age Pension Scheme: Tracing Its Evolution Under the IGNOAPS Framework

Tamil Nadu's old-age pension is older than the national scheme it now sits inside. The state's Old Age Pension (Normal) Scheme has run since 1 April 1962. Paying destitute persons aged 65 and above (60 if incapacitated) who had no means of subsistence or supporting relatives and moreover owned no property above ₹5,000 and were not professional beggars.

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Assistance to Deserted Indian Women Scheme, 2011: Protecting Abandoned Overseas Spouses

The Assistance to Deserted Indian Women Scheme was introduced to address the distress faced by Indian women abandoned by Non-Resident Indian (NRI) or foreign spouses. It is a welfare measure that supports women through local Indian community organisations, women’s groups, and NGOs empanelled with Indian Missions, supplemented by limited government funding (Ministry of External Affairs, 2011). Many such women encountered financial hardship, lack of legal support, and difficulties in accessing counselling or filing cases for maintenance, alimony, or divorce in foreign jurisdictions (Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, 2014).

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National Monetisation Pipeline 2.0 (2025–30) Advancing India’s Asset Monetisation Framework Beyond 2021

The idea of asset recycling was created globally to help solve the traditional issue for governments known as "the sovereign dilemma" or how to provide new and better public services while keeping their public debt from increasing. The first state (in this case, Australia's New South Wales) to implement asset recycling in its post-recession economic recovery in the 2010s demonstrated that with a few key steps a government can create the cash flow needed to develop new public assets. The concept is simple: build a public asset, de-risk that public asset until it produces steady cash flowing into your budget, then lease those cash-flowing rights to private investors. Thereby immediately creating an influx of funds to start developing the next generation of public assets.

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