Arun Jaitley increases defence budget by 5.8%
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Jaitley also announced that a central defence travel system is open for use and now soldiers can book travel tickets online. Other announcements included development of a comprehensive web based defence pension distribution system for defence pensioners has also been developed.
As per the experts, that atleast a 10 % increase was needed to deal with inflation and the vast sums required to modernize India's aging military hardware from Soviet era aircraft to outdated guns and body armor.
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