Defence Minister Launches Scheme for Effective Monitoring of Initiatives by Defence Production

Indian Army

New Delhi. In a move to streamline monitoring of various initiatives and schemes of the Department of Defence Production (DDP), Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Friday launched a Dashboard of Department Defence Production (DDP), Ministry of Defence.

Explaining its features, Secretary (Defence Production) said the main objectives of the Dashboard is to keep track of the major components of Defence Production, including defence exports, defence offsets, Intellectual Property Rights (Number of Patents registered) and Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti.

He gave a detailed account of the subjects on which the Dashboard will have capsulated information in a user-friendly interface that include defence projects under ‘Make in India’, startups in defence sector, investments in defence corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and artificial intelligence projects in defence.

The dashboard is available for the general public at www.ddpdashboard.gov.in. Some of the data on the dashboard is available for restricted viewing under access control.