12th Defence Expo-2022 to be held at Gandhinagar in Gujarat

12th Defence Expo-2022 to be held at Gandhinagar in Gujarat

• The 12th Defence Expo-2022 is scheduled to be held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from March 10 to 13, 2021, in a hybrid format.
• The biannual event will have participation of about 100 countries.
• Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh was in Gujarat on September 02, 2021, to review the preparations of DefExpo-2022, at Kevadia, Gujarat jointly with Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Vijay Rupani.
• The Memorandum of Understanding was also signed between the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, GoI, and Gujarat Government for organising DefExpo-2022.
• The aim of DefExpo-2022 is to achieve ‘Aatmanirbharta’ in defence and reach USD 5 billion defence exports target by 2024.
• The objective of DefExpo-2022 is to make India a major destination of ‘land, naval, air and homeland security systems and defence engineering’.

Source: PIB

Points To Remember:

1. DefExpo-2022 will be held in which state/city?
2. DefExpo-2022 is which edition of the biannual event?
3. DefExpo-2022 aims to reach USD 5 billion defence exports target by which year?