Defence budget

Sir,
In the interim budget presented by the Finance Minister Piyush Goel, provision of Rs 3,18,931 crore has been made for country’s defence.
This allocation has been hailed as the Biggest – ever defence budget. Still this allocation is very far behind our main adversary Chinese Army which spends around $224 billions annually. Despite this allocation, Indian army requires more money to meet its challenges posed by Pakistan and Army. The Indian Army has time and again pleaded that a big pie of the budget goes to salaries and pensions of the army personnel.
This leaves a little sum for procuring ammunition and new equipment.
There is urgent need to allocate more funds to the forces for modernisation. Unless we do that, China will continue to be a big challenges for us.
Sumit Mahajan
Udhampur