Pariksha SaathiDAC accords AoN to capital acquisition proposals worth about Rs 2,12,000 crore; about 82% to be procured from Indian industry
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh on 26 October 2026, accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN), that is, in-principle administrative approval, to capital acquisition proposals of the Defence Forces at an estimated cost of about Rs 2,12,000 crore; approximately 82% of the procurements will be made from the Indian industry. For the Indian Army, the approvals include High Mobility Vehicles, a Self-Propelled Tracked Gun System, a Gun Shot Response System, Light Multi Role Helicopters (to be used by both the Army and the Air Force), the Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS), a platform-based Counter Unmanned Aerial System, surveillance UAVs and a Long Range Kamikaze Drone System. For the Indian Navy, the DAC approved the Active Offboard Decoy System (AODS) against modern anti-ship missiles and indigenously designed and constructed major naval platforms; for the Indian Air Force, helicopters including Special Utility Helicopters, air defence systems, weapons and a Mobile X-Band Doppler Weather Radar System for weather surveillance in forward areas.
Drafted with AI assistance from the official PIB release linked above and checked against it by a second AI pass. Not line-edited by a human.
Learning context
Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh unveiled the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 on 28 September 2020, applicable from 01 October 2020; the first Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) had been promulgated in 2002. DAP 2020 reserved categories such as Buy (Indian-IDDM), Make I and Make II for Indian vendors, raised the minimum indigenous content for Buy (Indian-IDDM) to 50% from 40% under DPP 2016, and instituted single-stage accord of AoN in all cases up to Rs 500 crore. The Ministry of Defence has since released a draft of a new DAP for comments; once approved it will replace DAP 2020, and it proposes raising the Buy (Indian-IDDM) indigenous content further.
Check yourself: from when did DAP 2020 apply, and what minimum indigenous content did it set for the Buy (Indian-IDDM) category?
From 01 October 2020; a minimum of 50% (up from 40% under DPP 2016).
Revision task: from this release, note who chairs the DAC, what an AoN is, the total value of the AoNs, the share to be procured from Indian industry and one system approved for each service; from the note, when DAP 2020 was unveiled and applied, the year of the first DPP and the Buy (Indian-IDDM) indigenous content.
Test yourself
The Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh on 26 October 2026, accorded Acceptance of Necessity to capital acquisition proposals at an estimated cost of about how much?
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Answer: Rs 2,12,000 crore
The DAC accorded AoN to capital acquisition proposals of the Defence Forces worth about Rs 2,12,000 crore (Rs 2.12 lakh crore); approximately 82% of the procurements will be made from the Indian industry.
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