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No cut in defence budget: Antony

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Defence Minister A K Antony today told Rajya Sabha today that there has been no curtailment of the defence budget.

The estimates for 2014-15 is almost 10 percent higher than the allocation under the estimate of 2013-14, he said.

"It is proposed to allocate Rs. 2,24,000 crore for the defence services estimates under budget estimates of 2014-2015. This is almost 10 percent higher than the allocation under budget estimate of 2013-2014," he said replying to a question.

Antony made the remarks in a written reply to a question of Ravi Shankar Prasad of BJP.

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First Published: Feb 19 2014 | 9:13 PM IST

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