{"id":14808,"date":"2026-01-08T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=14808"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:52:12","slug":"aatmanirbharta-means-indigenous-design-development-of-equipment-possessing-the-upgradation-ability-and-maintaining-full-control-secretary-dp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=14808","title":{"rendered":"Aatmanirbharta means indigenous design &#038; development of equipment, possessing the upgradation ability, and maintaining full control: Secretary (DP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center event-heading-background\">\n<h2 id=\"Titleh2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Aatmanirbharta means indigenous design &amp; development of equipment, possessing the upgradation ability, and maintaining full control: Secretary (DP)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"Subtitleh3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PrDateTime\" class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 12 DEC 2025 9:58PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Secretary (Defence Production) Shri Sanjeev Kumar has stressed on the need to achieve self-reliance in defence manufacturing to deal with conventional and unconventional challenges of today. Delivering a lecture organised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on\u00a0<em>\u2018Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Defence Sector and Various Government Initiatives\u2019<\/em>\u00a0in New Delhi on December 12, 2025, he defined self-reliance as not being dependent on others, designing &amp; developing equipment indigenously, possessing the ability to upgrade, and maintaining full control over these products.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/PIC15URN.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of men sitting at a tableDescription automatically generated\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Secretary (Defence Production) highlighted the impact of the Srijan Scheme, Positive Indigenisation Lists, Make Procedures, and iDEX scheme in creating a robust defence ecosystem in the country. He emphasised the crucial role of audit agencies in ensuring transparency within procedural frameworks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aatmanirbharta means indigenous design &amp; development of equipment, possessing the upgradation ability, and maintaining full control: Secretary (DP) Posted On: 12 DEC 2025 9:58PM by PIB Delhi Secretary (Defence Production) Shri Sanjeev Kumar has stressed on the need to achieve self-reliance in defence manufacturing to deal with conventional and unconventional challenges of today. Delivering a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14810,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions\/14810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}