Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today reviewed the annual performance of 16 Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) in New Delhi. In his address, Mr Singh underlined that in the year 2025-26, India achieved defence production worth nearly 1.8 lakh crore rupees with DPSUs contributing 1.29 lakh crore rupees. He termed the achievement a reflection of the nation’s significant progress towards building an Aatmanirbhar defence industrial base. He stressed that the progress of DPSUs is not merely an economic or industrial necessity, it is a national security imperative.
The minister exhorted the DPSUs to come up with a roadmap for the next five years to enhance defence preparedness in sync with changing times. Mr Singh also urged the DPSUs to focus on timely delivery, reducing the import dependency, transforming research and development into technology leadership, enhancing defence exports to newer heights, increasing productivity with their capex expansion, supporting start-ups and MSMEs further and making efforts to achieve quality equivalent to global standards. The Minister also asked the DPSUs to continue focusing on elevating the quality of their products to global standards.
On the occasion, the Minister released four books namely Aatmanirbhar DPSU – A journey of DPSUs towards Self-Reliance on indigenisation of items, new products to be developed and new processes to be adopted for the next five years. During the review meeting, Minister of state for Defence, Sanjay Seth was also present.
