Kathmandu. The government has been increasing the budget of the Ministry of Defense every year. If we look at the statistics of the last five years, the budget received by the Ministry of Defense is increasing every year.
The Defense Ministry’s budget is usually spent on the salary, allowances and facilities of the army, regular salaries, allowances, housing, health care, and other facilities for soldiers and other employees. Similarly, new weapons, ships, aircraft, vehicles, communication equipment and other military equipment are purchased and maintained from it.
Not only this, various types of training, exercises and capacity building programs required by the army under military training and exercises are also conducted from this budget. Construction and maintenance of military barracks, training centres, air bases and other defence-related infrastructures are also being carried out from this budget.
Defence officials also spend money on research and development of new defence technologies towards research and development.
In international peacekeeping operations, such a budget has been used for the cost of sending peacekeepers to different countries at the call of the United Nations, conducting the day-to-day administrative work of the Ministry and subordinate agencies towards administrative expenses, and the cost of mobilizing the army in rescue and relief operations in natural disasters and other emergencies under emergency and disaster management is also spent from this budget.
If we look at the size of the budget, the budget for defense has increased by about 10 billion in the last five years. In 2078/79, the Ministry of Defense had allocated Rs 51.04 billion for such expenditure. In 2079-80, the defense budget has increased by more than Rs 4 billion compared to the previous year. In 2080-81, the budget has increased by 3 billion more than the previous year.
The government has allocated more than Rs 60.5 billion for the purchase of arms and construction of military barracks in the upcoming fiscal year 2082/83 BS. Out of this budget, the government plans to spend Rs 60.12 billion in military security in a single year.
What do you plan to do next year?
In the coming fiscal year, the government has planned to arrange military equipment, weapons and security equipment for national security and law and order.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel presented the budget on May 15 to make the security agencies strong, capable and professional.
The government plans to increase the capacity of the Nepal Army and mobilize it in national security, development construction and disaster management. Similarly, the government has continued the bunker to barracks program.
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