{"id":62745,"date":"2019-06-02T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62745"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T10:14:19","slug":"rajnath-asks-officers-to-set-time-bound-targets-in-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rajnath-asks-officers-to-set-time-bound-targets-in-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajnath asks officers to set time-bound targets in MoD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Delhi<br> Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh took charge as the Defence Minister in South Block here today.A statement of the Ministry said the minister \u201cwas given a brief presentation on the functioning of the MoD and all four departments  namely Departments of Defence, Defence Production and Ex-serviceman Welfare and Research and Development Organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before taking charge, Rajnath Singh paid tributes at the National War Memorial. He tweeted \u201cThese fallen heroes represent the character of India who has a long history of courage, sacrifice and patriotism. I salute them for keeping India safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister instructed the officers to prepare detailed presentations on all divisions and set time-bound targets to achieve the desired outcome, the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), the highest decision making body of the Ministry on procurements, is tentatively scheduled to meet in June. It will have several big ticket deals lined up for approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His immediate challenge would be to get additional funds and the long-term challenge is to give momentum to the ambitious \u201cMake in India\u201d pitch in defence manufacturing, which has made little progress in the past five years while also ensuring that defence modernisation makes progress.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh took charge as the Defence Minister in South Block here today.A statement of the Ministry said the minister \u201cwas given a brief presentation on the functioning of the MoD and all four departments namely Departments of Defence, Defence Production and Ex-serviceman Welfare and Research and Development Organisation\u201d. Before [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62747,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62745\/revisions\/62747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}