NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari on Wednesday raised in  .. 
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari Wednesday raised in the Lok Sabha the issue of falling defence allocation in the Union Budget and pointed out that China’s defence spending has been growing.

He expressed the hope that the government would address the issue and the concern would be taken care of in the upcoming Budget.

“China is spending more on defence. Their defence spending has grown over the years,” Tewari said in the Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour.

Citing a  Parliamentary panel report, he said, the country’s defence expenditure was reduced to 1.60 per cent of the GDP in 2017-18.

It further came down to 1.52 per cent in the interim Budget for 2019-20.

Raising the issue of death of construction workers in Pune and Mumbai, Girish Bapat (BJP) said there is an urgent need to implement Development Control (DC) Rules so that they are brought under the safety net.