India, Feb. 28 -- As one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India provides extraordinary opportunities across sectors to build business partnerships. There has been resurgence in a push towards growth and self-reliance, very evident in India's growing defence sector. Being one of the world's largest defence spenders with an estimated spend of some two per cent share of its GDP, India is increasing efforts to boost indigenous research, development and manufacturing along with facilitating global defence players to invest in country, so as to enable India emerge as a global platform for the defence sector in the research, manufacturing and supply chain ecosystems.

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