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Cover Story Sankalp years
Shakti of

DEFENSE EXPORTS STARTUP, UNICORN

India has overtaken
China in adding
new unicorns
during January-
July, 2022, with 14
There are 108
startup unicorns unicorns
20000 created in India in the country.
and 11 in China.
15000 Defense exports grew
15920
crore the most, 14 times.
n Till the year 2014 there were 32 startups, in the year
10000
2023 there have been 97,053.
India exports defense
5000 equipment to more n
1153 Startups spread over 649 districts of the country have
crore than 85 countries. provided 7.5 lakh jobs according to the report given to
0 the government.
2013-14 2022-23
Defense exports
in figures PLI

HIGHEST NET HIGHEST 1.97 lakh
COLLECTION OF RAILWAYS crore rupees PLI launched
DIRECT TAX FREIGHT TRAFFIC

2000000 2000
16,61,428 n
crore The Central Government approved the proposal of
NITI Aayog to launch a Production Linked Incentive
1500000 1500
1512 (PLI) scheme in 14 sectors in the year 2020 to rapidly
MT
increase manufacturing and exports.
1000000 1000
6,38,596 1058
crore MT n The possibility of creating more than 60 lakh jobs was
500000 500
expressed.
0 0
2013-14 2022-23 2013-14 2022-23
MAXIMUM GST COLLECTION

1.60 lakh GST collection in March 2023,
collection of over 1.5 lakh
crore
crore for the fourth time in a
year.
18.10 lakh rupees, the total GST
collection in the financial
crore
year 2022-23.

AatmaNirbhar Bharat's three packages of Rs
29 lakh 87 thousand crores announced, which
is about 15 percent of GDP.

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