The Modi government’s ‘Make-in-India campaign has led to a slowdown of domestic production of defence systems, with the country staring at a shortfall in weapons in the next few years, Bloomberg reported. 

“India’s air force, army and navy can no longer import some critical weapons systems to replace aging ones,” Bloomberg quoted the officials as saying. This means India will fall “critically” short of helicopters by 2026 and hundreds of fighter jets by 2030, they said. Before the Make in India policy came into effect in 2014, the country was the biggest importer of military equipment in the world. “Eight years later... India still doesn’t manufacture enough weapons locally to meet its needs--and government rules are blocking imports,” it said.