Opinion | Bofors To Rafale: Has PM Modi Successfully Ended The Scam Veto On Defence Procurement?

The Modi administration has cut out middlemen and adopted an institutional mechanism, preferring government-to-government procurement

For decades, Indian defence procurement operated under an invisible but powerful constraint. And that was, in simple terms, the fear of scandal. The fear of middlemen being caught paying kickbacks on behalf of defence firms to sway government and military officials to swing lucrative defence contracts.

In the 1980s, the Rs 64-crore Bofors scandal marked the Indian defence........

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