Rajnath Singh Releases 'RAKSHA' Defence Diplomacy Document

The correct answer is the Raksha Mantri, Rajnath Singh. The release states plainly that he put out the RAKSHA document on defence diplomacy in New Delhi, and that the framework sets down India's strategic roadmap and vision for defence partnerships across the world for the next 10 years. Option D, the Defence Secretary, is wrong but tempting: Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh was present at the event, as were the Secretary for Defence Production and the Secretary (East) of the Ministry of External Affairs, yet none of them released the document. Option B is a distractor of the same kind, since senior service officers attended, among them the Chief of the Army Staff and the Vice Chiefs of the Air Staff and the Naval Staff. Option A does not appear in the release at all. For a defence diplomacy document, the political head of the Ministry is the one who signs it out.

The correct answer is the next 10 years. The release calls RAKSHA a comprehensive framework that carries India's strategic roadmap and vision for global defence partnerships over the coming decade, and it repeats that the document gives a clear and actionable vision for the next ten years. The wording matters because examiners set questions on the exact span. Option D, twenty-five years, is the kind of horizon associated with long-term national visions and is the strongest distractor for a candidate working from memory of other policy documents. Options A and B are shorter periods that appear nowhere in this release. Keep the number with the four pillars of the document, namely Strategic Partnerships, Capacity Building, Indigenous Exports and Maritime Security, since a question may combine the two, asking how many pillars the decade-long roadmap rests on.

The correct answer is Maritime Security. That pillar of the RAKSHA document speaks of strengthening India's role as a Net Security Provider and a First Responder in the Indian Ocean Region, and both phrases are standard usage in Indian maritime strategy. The other three pillars cover different ground. Strategic Partnerships in option A is about deepening bilateral and multilateral security cooperation. Capacity Building in option B covers joint military exercises, training programmes and the sharing of best practices with friendly countries. Indigenous Exports in option C is about promoting Make-in-India defence platforms so that the country becomes a dependable global hub for defence manufacturing. Candidates should be able to match each pillar with its content, because questions are often set the other way round, naming the description and asking for the pillar. All four together are meant to keep India an anchor of peace and rule-based order.