Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence (Civil); Defence Services (Revenue); Capital Outlay on Defence Services; Defence Pensions.
mod.gov.in the official site. It is recorded only because the page it serves names itself as this body; an absent link here means "not corroborated", never "has no website".
₹7,32,512 crore
spent in 2025–26, 14.75% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.
Every year on record
| Year | Amount | Share of union spending | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | ₹7,32,512 crore | 14.75% | Revised estimate |
| 2024–25 | ₹6,36,003 crore | 13.67% | Actuals |
| 2023–24 | ₹6,09,504 crore | 13.72% | Actuals |
| 2022–23 | ₹5,73,098 crore | 13.67% | Actuals |
| 2021–22 | ₹5,00,681 crore | 13.20% | Actuals |
| 2020–21 | ₹4,85,681 crore | 13.84% | Actuals |
Its demands for grants
4 budget lines sit under this ministry. The total above is their sum, because a group carries no figure of its own anywhere in this dataset.
- Defence Services (Revenue) Pay, rations, fuel, spares and maintenance for the Army, Navy and Air Force, and DRDO's running costs. ₹3.50 lakh cr
- Capital Outlay on Defence Services Aircraft and aero engines, warships, submarines, vehicles and ordnance — the capital half of the defence budget. ₹1.86 lakh cr
- Defence Pensions Pensions for retired armed forces personnel and their families, including the one-rank-one-pension revisions. ₹1.69 lakh cr
- Ministry of Defence (Civil) The Coast Guard, Border Roads Organisation, defence estates and the ministry's civilian secretariat — not the armed forces themselves. ₹27,000 cr
The ministry structure here is the one the 2026-27 Budget publishes, applied to every year so a demand keeps one place across time. A machinery-of-government change that moved a demand between ministries in an earlier year is therefore not reflected.
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