{"id":17653,"date":"2026-10-27T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17653"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:32:54","slug":"dac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dac\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Acquisition Council Clears \u20b92.12 Lakh Crore Procurement Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Defence Acquisition Council Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) recently accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for capital acquisition proposals worth approximately \u20b92.12 lakh crore for the three services, with about 82% of the procurements to be sourced from the domestic industry. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Defence Acquisition Council<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>highest decision-making body <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of <\/span><b>India&#8217;s Ministry of Defence on procurement.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Main Objective: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To ensure <\/span><b>expeditious procurement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>approved requirements of the armed forces <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in terms of capabilities sought and time frame prescribed by optimally <\/span><b>utilizing the allocated budgetary resources.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Formation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It was formed after the<\/span><b> Group of Minister\u2019s recommendations on \u2018Reforming the National Security System\u2019, in 2001, post-Kargil War (1999).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Composition:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>defence minister<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>chairman <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of DAC.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>members <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">include senior civil and military leaders of the Ministry of Defence, among them the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/chief-of-defence-staff-cds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)<\/a> and chiefs of the Army, Navy, and Air Force;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Defence Secretary;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>other senior officials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> responsible for finance, production, and acquisition.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Functions:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Give in principle approval<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a <\/span><b>15-year Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan (LTIPP)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for defence forces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Accord of acceptance of necessity to acquisition proposals.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Categorisation of the acquisition proposals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relating to \u2018Buy\u2019, \u2018Buy &amp; Make\u2019, and \u2018Make\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look into <\/span><b>issues relating to single vendor clearance.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Take decisions regarding \u2018offset\u2019 provisions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in respect of acquisition <\/span><b>proposals above Rs 300 crore.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take <\/span><b>decisions regarding the Transfer of Technology<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the \u2018Buy &amp; Make\u2019 category of acquisition proposals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">F<\/span><b>ield trial evaluation.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The categorisation decisions taken by the DAC are especially significant, because they influence whether contracts flow to Indian designers and manufacturers or to foreign suppliers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through its approvals, the DAC effectively <\/span><b>sets <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>direction of India&#8217;s military modernisation. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/dac-clears-defence-procurement-proposals-worth-212-lakh-crore\/article71627089.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> India&#8217;s Defence Acquisition Council has accorded Acceptance of Necessity for defence acquisition proposals worth around \u20b92.12 lakh crore, with about 82% intended for domestic sourcing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2046,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-17653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-defence-acquisition-council","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130876,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions\/130876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}