DRDO has constituted four research boards to nurture and harness talent in academic institutions, universities, R&D centres and industry. The organization provides necessary facilities for promoting basic research and to catalyse cross-fertilization of ideas with R&D agencies in other sectors for expanding and enriching the knowledge base in their respective areas. The boards provide grants-in-aid for collaborative defence-related futuristic frontline research having application in the new world class systems to be developed by DRDO.

DRDO’s research boards provide a platform to tap research talent across the nation and promote cutting edge research that caters to the defense sector. Today these DRDO boards have been converted into money making system for some of the so called high profile scientists of DRDO.

These Boards are acting chairmen’s and powerful scientist’s pocket kitty, total funds of boards is distributed as per their will not according to merits.

All boards have different methods of distributing funds. As per DRDO’s website only, AR & DB give awards to the deserving persons in the field. Since 1988-2008 a total of 51persons have been awarded, but out of these 51, 80% are south Indians. Why? Because most of the time AR&DB was headed by South Indians. In AR&DB website there is nothing is mentioned about the achievements/ contribution/ innovative process/ products developed by the awardees. Of the 28 institutes promoted by AR&DB, more than 50% are from South India and more than 10 are private institutes which are run as family business.

ARB (ARMEB) board was established in 1997 and it appears to be a low profile board.

NRB is slightly more active as per their website. They offloaded 157 projects, activity output was shown in 32 projects, 57 projects were completed, 40 are ongoing till date (Jan 10) while there is no information on the status of the remaining 60 projects. Interesting thing is that output is coming from only those projects which are given to IIT’s, IIsc and NIO or Govt Institutions. The project budget is not disclosed anywhere on the website.

The Life Science Board is the biggest money manipulator board of DRDO and nowadays it is at its peak. All top corrupt official of DRDO are a part of it. This board’s website gives no information at all regarding any of its projects, or the institutions to which they have been awarded, their budget, achievements if any, etc.

Several institutes, like SASTRA and other south bound pocket institutes, which are directly and indirectly related to sanctioned authorities, are enjoying the poor tax payer’s money. In return they obey their orders, for example at the time of project approval itself it is pre-decided by the approving authority, that major part of equipment would be procured only from their favored vendors. Sometime they force their name to be added as co-author in research paper. The institute has to appease them by inviting them as chief guests in seminar/ workshop, with the condition that all their expenses be borne by the institute along with the expenses of their accompanying family. These practices can only be afforded by private organizations.

In case of SASTRA, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu the founder & VC Prof R Sethuraman is good friend of DR. W SELVAMURTHY, DS & CC R&D (LS) and whole sole of Life Sciences Board.

Can DRDO give a single example of entertaining of such large number project of single private institute at the same time (34 projects submitted by SASTRA in a single go and 14 were instantly sanctioned and rest 20 projects are waiting for sanction). Any one can observe that whenever SASTRA lecturers’ visit any of Life Sciences Labs of DRDO, the senior scientists always welcome them with folded hands, because any mistake or reaction would ruin their career by great DR. W SELVAMURTHY, DS & CC R&D (LS). He is part of DRDO’s God Father Culture. The scientists working in Life sciences have experienced his actions first hand as he elevates Duffer to Boss or ruins the career of brilliant scientists at will. This can be happened only in DRDO.

These boards’ sanction authorities or other counter parts like Dr. Chandra Prakash sanctioning grants to their friends/relatives etc. You will also find Dr.Chandra Prakash’s  participation in various papers / co-guide and seminars guest of honor / chairmanships of societies / and if one can go through the entire involvements of these scientists all you will find is corruption and only corruption

To

THE CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION

August Kranti Bhavan, Bhikaji Kama Place

NEW DELHI 110066

Appeal / Complaint No. ________dated__________

[For office use only]

Sir,

As I am aggrieved by decision/no decision of Central Public Information Officer and First Appellate Authority, I hereby file this appeal/complaint for your kind decision.

1. Details of appellant/complainant

1.1 Full Name: Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal

1.2. Full Address: 21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand Pin 248008

1.3 Phone/Cell No.: 0135-2787750 Cell No 09411114879

1.4 Email ID: prabhu@dandriyal.com, prabhudoon@gmail.com

2. Details of CPIO

2.1 Name/Designation: Sh. S.Ravi, Additional Director, DRDO Hqrs.

2.2 Full Address: Room No 314 A, DRDO Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, New Delhi – 110105

2.3 Name of Public Authority: DRDO, Ministry of Defence

3. Details of First Appellate Authority [FAA]:

3.1 Name/Designation of the FAA: Sh. S Sundaresh, CC R&D,

3.2 Full Address of FAA: Room No 414 A , DRDO Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, New Delhi -110105

4. Dates of RTI application/first appeal:

4.1 To CPIO 3^rd June 2010 & mailed on: 3^rd June 2010

4.2 To FAA: 20^th July 2010 & mailed on: 20^th July 2010

5. Particulars of Decisions:

5.1 Reference No & Date of CPIO’s Decision: DIITM/02/2091/P/2010 dated 18^th June 2010

5.2 Reference No & Date of FAA’s Decision: DIITM/02/2091/P/2010-19 dt 16^th August 2010

5.3 Date/s of personal hearing by FAA: No personal hearing by FAA

6. Dates of receipt of replies by appellant/complainant from:

6.1 CPIO: 21^st June 2010

6.2 FAA: 19^th August 2010

Details of information sought:  My RTI to CPIO, DRDO Hqrs.   3^rd June 2010

Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

1. With reference to LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH BOARD (LSRB) provide following informations

i)        Name of the Chairman & Secretary from with tenure from the date of  inception  LSRB

ii)       Total amount  spend under this scheme, grants were offered i.e. organizing seminar/workshops/ exhibitions or any other heads  from April 1999 to March 2010

iii)     TA/DA spent year wise from April 1999 to March 2010 by DRDO for  DRDO officials in connection with LSREB related work

2. With reference to NAVAL RESEARCH BOARD (NRB) provide following informations

i)        Name of the Chairman & Secretary from with tenure from the date of  inception  NRB

ii)       Total amount  spend under this scheme, grants were offered i.e. organizing seminar/workshops/ exhibitions or any other heads  from April 1999 to March 2010’

iii)     TA/DA spent year wise from April 1999 to March 2010 by DRDO for  DRDO officials in connection with NRB related work

3.       With reference to AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT BOARD (ARDB) provide following informations

i.            Name of the Chairman & Secretary from with tenure from the date of  inception  ARDB

ii.            Total amount  spend under this scheme, grants were offered i.e. organizing seminar/workshops/ exhibitions or any other heads  from April 1999 to March 2010

iii.            TA/DA spent year wise from April 1999 to March 2010 by DRDO for  DRDO officials in connection with ARDB related work

4.      With   reference to ARMAMENT RESEARCH BOARD (ARMREB) provide following informations

i.            Name of the Chairman & Secretary from with tenure from the date of  inception  ARMREB

ii.            Total amount  spend under this scheme, grants were offered i.e. organizing seminar/workshops/ exhibitions or any other heads  from April 1999 to March 2010

iii.            TA/DA spent year wise from April 1999 to March 2010 by DRDO for  DRDO officials in connection with ARMEB related work

6. With reference to EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH/INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT (ER/IPR) provide following informations:-

I)           Total amount  spend under DRDO Grants-in-Aid Scheme to various academic institutions and R&D  labs outside the boundaries of DRDO from April 1999 to March 2010

II)            TA/DA spent year wise from April 1999 to March 2010 by DRDO for  DRDO officials in connection with ER/IPR related work

Brief facts of the case:

These boards are engaging in siphoning the poor tax payer’s money for personal gain of the sanction authority.

Almost 400 Crores of rupees are distributing through these boards and different DRDO projects to IIT’s, Universities’ and Colleges and even some NGO’s, in the name of  expanding and deepening the knowledge-base, Enhancing core competence in the field of knowledge, To encourage and provide funds for basic research in pertinent scientific disciplines etc.

The most of funds distributed till date to maximum private universities and private institutions and especially in last ten years out of total grants has gone to southern states. DRDO in its charter of duty has specifically mentioned Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to North East the equal opportunity will given to universities/institutions.

Now Amity University is also start getting funds in corers but the reason that 4 senior most DRDO retired persons are doing jobs.

Recently SASTRA University, Deemed University,   Thanjavur Tamil Nadu submitted 34 projects to DRDO and instantly 14 were sanctioned and rest 20 are in process. The VC of SASTRA University   Prof. R. SETHURAMAN is friend of Dr W Selvamurthy,  DS & CC R&D (LS),   of DRDO and Chairman of Life Sciences Research Board instructed (ordered) various lab Directors to release grants to SASTRA.

Any one cannot believe when the simple private college lectures of these CC R&D’s favorites visit for any Labs of DRDO for grants of projects the whole team of senior most Scientists ‘G’ are line up in front of them for their service.

Even though the sanction authority electronics engineer the paper publishes by the individual professor of any stream or under their project for which the grant has given by DRDO, the co-author always is the DRDO man.

These boards sanction authorities or other counter parts like Dr. Chandra Prakash sanctioning grants to their friends/relatives etc and you will find Dr.Chandra Prakash  participations in various papers / co-guide and seminars guest of honor / chairmanships of societies / and if one can go through the entire involvements of these scientists  will find only corruption and only corruption.

The city/ town are belongs to them projects are become soft path for inducting their own wards in main DRDO vacancies and it is the vice versa.

9. Reasons/grounds for this appeal / complaint:

i)       It is clear cut case of misappropriation of Govt. Funds and misinterpretation of Govt.  rules

ii)       A holistic approach of expose the weak management policy which is giving immense loss of funds, national security, defence preparedness etc of our country. 

10. Any other information in support of appeal/complaint:

11. Prayer/relief sought for:

i)     It is requested that please provide me correct information as per request of my RTI dated  3^rd June  2010  in larger public interest, because it is directly related to poor tax payers money

12. Grounds for prayer/relief sought for:

13. Personal Presence at hearing: YES / NO    –Yes

14. Declaration:

I hereby state that the information and particulars given above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I also declare that this matter is not previously filed with this commission nor is pending with any Court or tribunal or authority.

Place: Dehradun Date: 16^th Nov 2010

Signature of appellant/complainant

Dear Dr Saraswat Ji Jaihind

I am really shocked to see the reaction of our country on the prevailing corruptions in DRDO. Whenever you are free please try to feel the agony of our country, because you are the only person who can initiate or take action to stop the flow of corruption in DRDO which is flowing from top to bottom.

08/01/2010

Sting op shows bulletproof jacket trials were rigged

Question mark over procurement of jackets after DRDO scientist is stung claiming the trials were rigged

New Delhi: The procurement of 59,000 bulletproof jackets for paramilitary forces, including the National Security Guard, is under a cloud.

A sting operation by a disqualified bidder purportedly features a Joint Director of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) — who monitored the jackets’ testing process — as claiming that he had first rigged the trials and could now “undo the damage.”

The tape, obtained by The Indian Express, was submitted to the Home Ministry by a security firm which had supplied 20,000 bulletproof jackets to the Government last year but failed to make the cut this time.

The 25-minute tape is said to feature R K Varma, Joint Director of DRDO’s Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory near Chandigarh, the venue of the jacket trials.

People, Media and Government Agencies are talking about a lot of these kinds of issues, but as the Head of DRDO organization, you are fully aware of the facts and know who are the culprits and where the lacuna is in the system. In only 20 years of my service, in very small position, I also became aware the corruption mechanism which is prevailing in DRDO. So you, who are Super Technocrat and involved deeply in each and every important activity of DRDO since 1972, would definitely be aware of all these malpractices too.

Please do take urgent and needful action and that I am certain will become an important milestone in the history of DRDO.

People’s reaction on bulletproof jacket

INTENSIVEKS

08 January 2010 12:24:05

• DRDO is the SYNONYM FOR HYDRA-HEADED CORRUPTION of GOVT.OF INDIA.
• The Media should FOCUS AND HIGHLIGHT THE DRDO or the DEVILS REPAIR AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP.
• Every contract in DRDO is given ONLY AGAINST “CUTS” to the SARDAR especially waiting there to collect. No “kickbacks” NO CONTRACTS….as simple as that…
• Whether it be BULLET-PROOF JACKETS or MISSILES,SUB-MACHINE GUNS or AMMUNITION,ROCKETS OR AIRCRAFT PARTS OR ANY BIG GUNS….NO HAFTA NO CONTRACTS..
• Do U know why our Missiles are required to be “tested 100%” i.e. EVERY Defence Rocket MUST BE TESTED,every VIJAYANTA TANK must be tried,EVERY SUBMARINE must be TESTED 100%.
• Why does “Defence Development” take so long?
• Why does it take AGES to REFIT SUKHOIS or SUBMARINES???
• Answer lies in CORRUPTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER in DRDO….
• Just pay the Money or your PRODUCT will be “FAILED AGAIN AND AGAIN”…
• Repercussion: Our Troops in Jammu N KASHMIR are killed more regularly than the Militants..
• HIGH LEVEL CORRUPTION IS GOING ON FOR YEARS IN DRDO…NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THE HEAD IS AND WHERE THE TAIL OF THIS MONSTER IS..

Hard Target

08 January 2010 13:47:52

This is extremely sick but literally not shocking as corruption is the latest fundamental right of the Indian public servants. In every government dept. be it the railways or Public works department contracts are always given to the people with high political contacts. I know a person in the northern railways . He openly boasted that he took a bribe of 8 lakh rupees for passing  a contract and he was the chief engineer. Such shameless and crooked people are managing the state of affairs of our country.

I wonder why people like varma are not tried for mass murders. Security personnel risk their lives for the country leaving back their families and Varma’s are busy making money out of the precious lives. The Bloody **** should be hanged!!

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indian2012

08 January 2010 13:17:33

Let this traitor Verma face the firing squad wearing the same bullet proof jacket he says fit for our poor jawans.

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KA Balkrishna

08 January 2010 12:54:12

Hey Ram !!

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Times Changing

08 January 2010 12:48:55

Who is more terrifying…Kasab or “The Indian Democracy” which runs on the fuel called corruption?

Jai Ho!

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Anil Rajput

08 January 2010 12:29:47

Any one involve in such corruption must be tried for a crime of murder with pre planning and they must face the same fate as of a criminal.

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08 January 2010 12:07:01

mrduma

This is disgusting. These people are doing business with lives of our Jawans and Police. These people should be hanged.  Corruption has become like a cancer in our society and its slowly eroding the entire system. who will stop this… when this will stop..

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To

THE CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION

August Kranti Bhavan, Bhikaji Kama Place

NEW DELHI 110066

Appeal / Complaint No. ________dated__________

[For office use only]

Sir,

As I am aggrieved by decision/no decision of Central Public Information Officer and  First Appellate Authority, I hereby file this appeal/complaint for your kind decision

1. Details of appellant/complainant

1.1 Full Name: Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal

1.2. Full Address: 21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand Pin 248008

1.3 Phone/Cell No.: 0135-2787750

Cell No 09411114879

1.4 Email ID: prabhu@dandriyal.com, prabhudoon@gmail.com

2. Details of CPIO

2.1 Name/Designation: Sh. S.Ravi, Additional Director, DRDO Hqrs.

2.2 Full Address: Room No 314 A, DRDO Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, New Delhi – 110105

2.3 Name of Public Authority: DRDO, Ministry of Defence

3. Details of First Appellate Authority [FAA]:

3.1 Name/Designation of the FAA: Sh. S Sundaresh, CC R&D,

3.2 Full Address of FAA: Room No 414 A , DRDO Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, New Delhi -110105

4. Dates of RTI application/first appeal:

4.1 To CPIO 7^th June 2010 & mailed on: 7^th June 2010

4.2 To FAA: 20^th July 2010 & mailed on: 20^th July 2010

5. Particulars of Decisions:

5.1 Reference No & Date of CPIO’s Decision: DIITM/02/2091/P/2010 dated 18^th June 2010

5.2 Reference No & Date of FAA’s Decision: DIITM/02/2091/P/2010-19 dt 16^th August 2010

5.3 Date/s of personal hearing by FAA: No personal hearing by FAA

6. Dates of receipt of replies by appellant/complainant from:

6.1 CPIO: 21^st June 2010

6.2 FAA: 19^th August 2010

7. Details of information sought:  My RTI to CPIO, DRDO Hqrs.   7^th June 2010

Kindly provide me with the following information requested under purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

With Reference to Dr Prahlada, DS & CC R&D (Ae & SI)

1. After taking his charge as CC R&D at DRDO Hqrs, how many days he stayed in DRDO Hqrs up to 31^st March 2010
2. How many temporary duties to Hyderabad he had been with total stay at Hyderabad.
3. How much in total TA/DA he has drawn year wise from his joining as CC R&D at DRDO up to 31^st March 2010.

With Reference to Shri  RC Agarwal, Director DEAL, Dehradun

1. After taking his charge as Director DEAL, Dehradun , how many days he stayed in Dehradun up to 31^st March 2010
2. How many temporary duties to Bangalore he had been with total stay at Bangalore
3. How much in total TA/DA he has drawn year wise from his joining as Director, DEAL up to  31^st March 2010.

8. Brief facts of the case:

The information sought for is not related to end senior officer in his individual/personal capacity but in his capacity being a public authority.

Too frequent visit to a particular destination on Government expenses require to justify and as to how much it was beneficial to the organization and how much to the officer especially when he belongs to that particular destination. It appe

ars that the permanent residence is his Hqrs and place of posting is a temporary duty station. The frequent move availability of the officer in the Hqrs. station may lead to problem of command and control and discipline, which may hamper the progress and led to undue delay and time and cost overrun to ongoing projects of DRDO.

In this particular case I requested the TD details of Dr. Prahlada, Appellate Authority, CC R&D (Ae & SI) & DS, who is staying C-7 Qutab Enclav, DRDO guest house since his posting to DRDO Hqrs, for him most of time he took his breakfast in his Hyderabad residence and lunch in DRDO Hqrs and evening for dinner he was again back to his Hyderabad residence. Please see his TD detail and then decide.

Second one is Shri  RC Aggarwal, Director DEAL, Dehradun, since his posting he use to out  from DEAL, Dehradun almost more than 250 days out of 365 days. How can the armed forces expect trustworthy products from these so called senior scientists?

There more 9-10 CC R&D and Directors who are belongs to Hyderabad and Bangalore and their families are staying Hyderabad and Bangalore respectively and they all are staying in DRDO guest houses they are giving their residence address in telephone directory at DRDO guest houses and enjoying HRA also. They are frequent fliers, they all are already break the Milkha Singh ‘s (Flying Sikh of India)  records and relishing without fear with TD with poor tax payers money.

9. Reasons/grounds for this appeal / complaint:

i)             It is clear cut case of corruption and nepotism and misappropriation of public funds.

ii) A holistic approach of expose the DRDO’s culture of Temporary duty Funda

10. Any other information in support of appeal/complaint:

11. Prayer/relief sought for:

i)     It is requested that please provide me correct information as per request of my RTI dated  7^th June  2010  in larger public interest, because it is directly related to poor tax payers money

12. Grounds for prayer/relief sought for:

13. Personal Presence at hearing: YES / NO    –Yes

14. Declaration:

I hereby state that the information and particulars given above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I also declare that this matter is not previously filed with this commission nor is pending with any Court or tribunal or authority.

Place: Dehradun Date: 16^th Nov 2010

Signature of appellant/complainant

Details of information sought:  My RTI to CPIO, DRDO Hqrs.   2^nd June 2010

Kindly provide me the following information requested under the purview of Right to Information Act. 2005.

1. Total amount invested on long term post graduation training program and PhD program under R & T scheme, and under Post Graduate Training (PGT) scheme of DRDO during period for

April 1990 – March 2010 under following heads

i)        Adhoc advances

ii)       Study leave salary

iii)      Reimbursement of expenditure on account of stationary items, preparation of thesis, purchase of books and journals etc.

iv)     Non refundable fee

v)      TA

vi)     DA

vii)    Financial incentive on acquiring higher qualification at their own

2.  Total number of official Grade wise/Post wise/ Categories wise received  MS/ME/MTech, PhD degree during period April 1990 – March 2010

i)      Full time

ii)     Part Time

iii)    External Registration

3.  The Institution from where degree of MTech/ PhD was awarded from April 1990 – March 2010

4.     Total amount invested on short term training/ workshops/ seminars/ courses in India (Including DIAT/ITM/IIM’s/ IIT’s, NIT’s, ESCI, ASCI, IISc’s etc.) and abroad, during period from April 1990 – March 2010

i)      Training/ Courses/Delegations Fee/Registration Fee

ii)     TA

iii)    DA

5.     Total number of Scientist resigned from April 1990 – March 2010

6.   Total number of scientist joined DRDO from April 1990 – March 2010

8. Brief facts of the case:

DRDO sends annually many officers for higher studies particulars to IIT’s and national Universities. The admission which granted normally after tough competitions are available to DRDO’s sponsored candidates was easily.

Aim of such higher studies is to use the academic platform to solve the complicate technical issues. DRDO in turn give the IIT’s or Universities sufficient grants against project and R&T schemes.

No one gets benefited neither the institutions nor the DRDO, it is because the most of the individuals after getting higher education working as admin, allied works, and  the reaction of this most of them leave the organisation. For example DR.DP Singh, Estate Manager, Scientist ‘F’ did his post graduation and Phd from DRDO sponsoring and performing duty of admin purely non scientific assignment. Sh A.K Musla, Sc ‘F, holding post Joint Director Admin in IRDE, Dehradun, he also did his B.tech and M.Tech from DRDO sponsored funds and working as purely in admin. I am quoting only two names as tip of the iceberg, because in DRDO you will find 100 of such cases. DRDO is shear wasting the crores and crores rupees public funds in the name of higher education programs. Although, the aim and object of the higher education program is really good, but in hands of bad corrupt officials, the output is wasting by DRDO.

According to the ministry, a total of 1,107 scientists, mostly young entrants, have resigned from the DRDO between 2003 and 2007, implying that on an average one person leaves every two days. 

9. Reasons/grounds for this appeal / complaint:

i)      It is clear cut case of corruption and nepotism and misappropriation of public funds.

ii)                  A holistic approach of expose the handling the higher education policy  .

10. Any other information in support of appeal/complaint:

11. Prayer/relief sought for:

i)     It is requested that please provide me correct information as per request of my RTI dated  2^nd June  2010  in larger public interest, because it is directly related to poor tax payers money

12. Grounds for prayer/relief sought for:

13. Personal Presence at hearing: YES / NO    –Yes

14. Declaration:

I hereby state that the information and particulars given above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I also declare that this matter is not previously filed with this commission

nor is pending with any Court or tribunal or authority.

Place: Dehradun Date: 16^th Nov 2010

Signature of appellant/complainant

Details of information sought:  My RTI to CPIO, DRDO Hqrs   31^st May 2010

Hello,
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

DRDO selects right people with desire competence for the post for which they are recruited/promoted/trained.

In order to attract retaining, inspire and motivate, DRDO scientist to give their best contribution and keeping in view the role played by them in the development of high technology and systems for strategic application the government has sanctioned following financial incentive to all scientist of DRDO with effect from 1^st Jan 1999.

Special pay of Rs 2000/ per month to Scientist G and above*

Two additional increment to scientist (recruitment/promotion) Scientist C, D, E and F after their pay normal pay fixation.

Professional upgrade allowance Rs 5000/- per annum to all Scientists**

*….Enhanced to Rs 4000/ per month effect from 1^st Jan 2006

**.. Enhanced to Rs  10000/ per annum to Scientist B, C & D

Enhanced to Rs  20000/ per annum to Scientist E & F

Enhanced to Rs  30000/ per annum to Scientist G & above with effect from 1^st Sept 2008

In addition to above mention financial increments the really deserving scientist of DRDO for their very exceptional and highly meritorious performance and reorganisation of their merit are being granted variable increments up to maximum of 6 at the time of their promotion with effect from1st Jan 2009. The scientist ‘H’ / outstanding scientist and distinguished scientist are being granted fixed amount of Rs 10000/- per month as variable increments.

Variable increments up to a maximum of 3 increments have been granted to all supporting technical staff of DRDO with effect from 1^st Jan 2009

DRDS official and DRTC personals promoted prior to 1^st Jan 2009 have been awarded variable increments based on their pervious/ last review/assessment.

In this connection it is requested to provide the following detail information.

1.  Total amount given as

i)       Additional increments with effect from 1^st Jan 1999 to 31^st March 2010 to DRDs official

ii)      Professional update allowance from 1^st Jan 1999 to 31^st March 2010 to DRDs official

iii)     Variable Increments amount up to  31^st March 2010 to DRDS official  –

iv)     Variable Increments amount up to  31^st March 2010 to DRTC official  –

v)      Special pay amount to Sc ‘G and above from 1^st Jan 1999 to 31^st March 2010-

Note: above required information is directly related to corruption and not come under schedule-II

8. Brief facts of the case:

DRDO having approx 7000 strong scientist team and recently DRDO is asking more scientists from Government of India stated that the existing authorized manpower is exhausted and to deliver assigned projects output in time they need more scientist. Presently DRDO management is wasted their scientific and technical manpower in admin allied, stores procurement, security, arboriculture, horticultures and works (constructions) assignments for some vested reasons. To know the exactly about the ground realty of using manpower in proper assignments I have requested on behalf of poor tax payers, how much money are  wasting by DRDO by putting scientific and technical manpower in sundry works and information will also reflect that  the authorized manpower for admin allied are misutilizing by DRDO.

The service in Govt. of India is controlled by article 145 of constitution and SRO’s are prepared considering the locus standy to meet the functional requirements.

The sanction under SRO is granted for appointing Scientist “B” to Distinguished Scientists in Officer Cadre.

Until the SRO amendment it is crime and violation of CCS/CCA rules of the Govt. of India.

DRDO is wasting poor tax payer money by using scientific and technical manpower in admin allied work.

For example as Director DRDL appointed since July 2008 Sh.YV Ratna Prasad, scientist ‘F’ as Director Management Services ( order copy is enclosed for your ready reference)  and a senior scientist is performing admin allied task without having the knowledge of administration, resulted being a CPIO, DRDL in one of his reply to RTI request signed as for Director etc. this the tip of ice berg of DRDO culture. If one can look DRDO telephone directory the will find several example i.e lot of scientist and technical manpower are deputing in admin allied, stores  procurement, security, arboriculture, horticultures and works (constructions) assignments for some vested reasons, and they are also enjoying the financial incentive.

If Finance Ministry, Ministry of Personal and CIC examine the utilization of DRDO scientist and technical manpower they will found more then 25 % manpower is engaged in these sundry money making assignments.

And interesting point is that DRDO is approaching Government of India for releasing more scientific manpower as they have already exhausted the existing one.

Please refer the letter no DHRD/76687/ORGN/C/M/02 dated 13^th May 2010, 1^st June 2010 and 11^th June 2010

9. Reasons/grounds for this appeal / complaint:

i)     It is clear cut case of misappropriation of Govt. Funds and misinterpretation of Govt. rules

ii) A holistic approach of expose the weak management policy which is giving immense loss of funds, national security, defence preparedness etc of our country. 

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10. Any other information in support of appeal/complaint:

11. Prayer/relief sought for:

i)     It is requested that please provide me correct information as per request of my RTI dated  31^st May 2010  in larger public interest, because it is directly related to poor tax payers money

12. Grounds for prayer/relief sought for:

13. Personal Presence at hearing: YES / NO    –Yes

14. Declaration:

I hereby state that the information and particulars given above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I also declare that this matter is not previously filed with this commission

nor is pending with any Court or tribunal or authority.

Place: Dehradun Date: 16^th Nov 2010

prabhu Dandriyal

Signature of appellant/complainant

To

THE CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION

August Kranti Bhavan, Bhikaji Kama Place

NEW DELHI 110066

Appeal / Complaint No. ________dated__________

[For office use only]

Sir,

As I am aggrieved by decision/no decision of Central Public Information Officer and  First Appellate Authority, I hereby file this appeal/complaint for your kind decision.

1. Details of appellant/complainant

1.1 Full Name: Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal

1.2. Full Address: 21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand Pin 248008

1.3 Phone/Cell No.: 0135-2787750 Cell No 09411114879

1.4 Email ID: prabhu@dandriyal.com, prabhudoon@gmail.com

2. Details of CPIO

2.1 Name/Designation: Sh. PK Sharma, Scientist ‘G’ CPIO, DEAL, DEHRADUN

2.2 Full Address: DEAL, Raipur Road, DEHRADUN

2.3 Name of Public Authority: DRDO, Ministry of Defence

3. Details of First Appellate Authority [FAA]:

3.1 Name/Designation of the FAA: Sh. S Sundaresh, CC R&D,

3.2 Full Address of FAA: Room No 414 A , DRDO Bhawan, Rajai Marg, New Delhi -110105

4. Dates of RTI application/first appeal:

4.1 To CPIO: 26 May 2010 & mailed on: 26 May 2010

4.2 To FAA: 10 July 2010 & mailed on: 10 July 2010

5. Particulars of Decisions:

5.1 Reference No & Date of CPIO’s Decision: 31^st May 2010 Letter No DEAL/RTI/2010/38

5.2 Reference No & Date of FAA’s Decision: 16^th August 2010 DIITM/02/2091/P/2010-19

5.3 Date/s of personal hearing by FAA: No personal hearing by FAA

6. Dates of receipt of replies by appellant/complainant from: 19^th August 2010

6.1 CPIO: 2^nd June 2010

6.2 FAA: 19^th August 2010

7. Details of information sought:  My RTI to DEAL, Dehradun

Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

M/S Wave Components System Associates (India) Ph – / fax -26225293  M-39 (LGF), Chitranjan Park

New Delhi – 110019 is or was registered firm in DEAL, Dehradun and supplied various material/items vide different supply orders.

1. M/S Celestia Impex Pvt. Ltd Ph/fax-26225293   557, Tower-II , Kailash Apatment  New Delhi- 110065

is  or was  registered firm in DEAL, Dehradun and supplied various material/items vide different supply orders.

i)             Kindly provide copy of above both the firms registration at DEAL, Dehradun

ii)            Sales Tax number of above both the firms

iii)           PAN umbers of above both the firms

iv)           Copy of Supply orders of closed cases up to 2004 of both the firms

v)            Payment details of respective supplies from both the firms up to 2006

Note: above required information is directly related to corruption and not come under schedule -II

8. Brief facts of the case:

1. CPIO, DEAL Letter No DEAL/RTI/2010/38 Dated 31^st May 2010 (mentioned that Para i) to iv) of my request is will be disclosed after third party consent. Para –v information relates to the stores procured from two firms for sensitive projects being progressed by DEAL, information denied. ( copy enclosed)
2. CPIO, DEAL Letter DEAL/RTI/2010/Misc Para – 4 information completely denied (Copy enclosed)

i)     Both the firms belong to same person Retd. Lt Col .Deepak Badhwar and supplied plenty of sophisticated high technology electronics components to DEAL in mysterious way worth corers of rupees.

ii)    Participated in same tender as competitive bidder

iii)   Never imported the ordered component (Please refer the enclosed RTI reply by custom department)

iv)   The Custom says that nothing was imported from these firms then the custom duty exemption certificate issued by DEAL – where it was used?

v)    Here the big question arise from where they sourced the components – as per reliable sources that the components sourced from DRDL , Hyderabad and because of large quantity the both firm asked that split the order so they can easily rotate the components with help of then Director, DEAL Dr.A S Bains.

vi)   IB report is enclosed where they revealed that the owner both  firms is friend of then Director, DEAL and only involved in rice export to US turn in electronics supplier.

vii) Both firms did business only with DEAL, Dehradun.

9. Reasons/grounds for this appeal / complaint:

i)     To stop the corrupt practices prevailing in DRDO

ii)    It is clear cut case of corruption and national security interest.

iii) A holistic approach of expose the weak procurement process of DRDO in the name of façade secrecy

iv) I have sent again a request to FAA for reviewing his decision copy CIC but no information was received.

10. Any other information in support of appeal/complaint:

i)     I requested top financial authorities of Government of India and all responded and seriously take the issue of national interest. (copy enclosed)

ii)    CVC is already taken it as complain and doing needful action to save the our premier organization DRDO from corrupt official. (copy enclosed)

iii)   Copy of my request to FAA for reviewing his decision.

11. Prayer/relief sought for:

i)     It is requested that please provide me correct information as per request of my RTI dated 31^{st May} 2010 in larger public interest, because it is directly related to corruption and poor tax payers money.

12. Grounds for prayer/relief sought for:  – sake of national security interest and stop the corrupt practices prevailing in DRDO.

13. Personal Presence at hearing: YES / NO    –Yes

14. Declaration:

I hereby state that the information and particulars given above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I also declare that this matter is not previously filed with this commission

nor is pending with any Court or tribunal or authority.

Place: Dehradun Date: 16^th Nov 2010

Signature of appellant/complainant

December 10^th, 2010

Dear Dr.  Saraswat Ji  Jaihind

The very foundation of DRDO was laid to develop import substitute but with passage of time the new generation leaders, instead of delivering import substitute, like Trishu, Akash, Nag were left far behind and we are delivering Brahmos (Russian). Until and unless we fix accountability on ourselves and we are determined to develop our own indigenous product, nobody will appreciate the work of DRDO. The user will always prefer procuring directly from the developers, why will they ask you for half cooked product from DRDO. Whether it is missile, RADAR, Communication systems etc., in 60 years we have not delivered any system which is known as indigenous DRDO product.

Please ask this question to yourself several times and then you will get only answer “Don’t run behind many project; pick up a single item and put total effort on it; hand over the deliverable project to user. If a lab decided to deliver a product in 5 or 10 years, the poor tax payers will remain obliged to so called DRDO scientific experts”

Stop doing sundry projects in n numbers; do one but DRDO should have monopoly over it and should be proud for the same.

Corruption & nepotism add fuel to fire. People like Sh. R. C. Aggarwal director DEAL, who joined as charge-man, is spoiling the charter of duties of DRDO. The associate director of SDR Sh R K Aggarwal  is infamous for violation of rules (his name is also in the  CBI report No.PE-3(A) /2001 for association with M/S India Satcom Ltd – recommended for black list). Like Sh. Hemant Kumar Gupta, HMM, DEAL, Dehradun, he is always involved in minting money by all means. He travelled by bus several times but submitted taxi bills. On one occasion in 2003 the auditor found the fact and issue came to light. The then director Dr AS Bains constituted an inquiry committee and truth was found by committee of Sh Asok Sen and Sh Prakash Chand but matter was set aside by Dr AS Bains.

Same set of people are handling SDR’s fate with sole aim of minting money either through commission or omission.

Can you imagine that Sh R C Aggarwal and his commission or omission oriented team will able to deliver something worth SDR.

I guarantee you, like the originally conceived and proposed CNR, SDR will be a big failure. Whatever I am writing please do not ignore for the sake of DRDO and our country, please take inputs positively.

I hope Dr Sreehari Rao might have carried some organic vegetables for you from Sh RC Aggarwal’s kitchen garden ( DRDO funded).

Thanking you

Regards

Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal

21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun  -248008

Phone – 0135-2787750, Mobile  9411114879,

E-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com

Website –  www.corruptionindrdo.com/

8^th December 2010

Dr. R Sreehari Rao

“Outstanding Scientist” who took over as Chief Controller R&D (Electronics & Computer Sciences)

Dear Dr R Sreehari Rao

Welcome to DEAL again, despite several of your visits to DEAL, Dehradun, it is still in same soup of corruption and nepotism under able leadership of your DLRL old friend Sh. R.C. Aggarwal. Even personal noting of Dr V K Saraswat on deep sea communication ( a important urgent need of Indian Navy) is overlooked by Sh R C Aggarwal. You will find nothing has still been done seriously by him. You can verify it by the letters received by Sh RC Aggarwal from DRDO Hqrs and from the delay in forwarding the same to concerned scientist and vis-vis the output of scientists to you.

History is being repeating in DEAL. Like CNR scientists, the SDR team is planning to vanish from the scene. In CNR because of the actions (corruption, nepotism & anti national activity) of Dr AS Bains, 90% of team including Sh PC Gupta (Project Head), Sh S K Singh, Sh. Kapil Rai, Ms Mavinder Bhatti, Sh Vikas Maheshwari, Sh Tandon and others left DEAL/DRDO. The source also said that Sh LC Mangal, Sh RK Aggarawal and many other young scientists are planning to move out from DEAL.

Please check that originally it was planned to generate 19 waveforms for SDR, but more than100 scientists who were working on it including distinguished scientist Sh R C Aggarwal failed measurably. Only one waveform for VHF copied from CNR is working rest 18 waveforms generation have not seen the light of the day.

So Dr Sreehari Rao you are visiting almost every month in DEAL to find out the output but there is no accountability, you are returning blank in term of scientific output, may be in term of Dr RC Aggarwal specialty (corruption) you are getting some????

DRDO Hqrs has to make its teeth strong then only a bluffer like Sh. RC Aggarwal surrounded by bluffers can deliver some output. The reason of above failure is the people have lost faith on Sh RC Aggarwal. He is deeply involved in corruption and nepotism, as can been seen from the fact that even the small thing in respect of temporary duties, all his bills are passed while the young scientists (B, C &D) travelling with him are suffer as account department has stopped payment due to non availability of T/D budget, so you can imagine the anxiety of young scientist they are asking under purview of RTI Act how can the bill of Sh RC Aggarwal have cleared. Here is an example of DRDO’s director and how they are leading negatively and performing their CEO role. These kinds of actions by DRDO lab directors depletes faith and damages team sprit of young scientist and this can strongly be stated as one of reason of DRDO failures.

Sir, please ensure your sincere effort on

1. Seizing & freezing the auto engine from a safe distance to counter fidayeen attack.
2. ii. Deep sea (400m-500m) submarine communication technology for mission mode operations
3. NVIS application in mountainous terrain as desired by Indian Army
4. EMP hardening of Satcom/HF/VHF terminals

Hope above task will begin shortly under your able leadership.

Thanking you

Regards

Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal

21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun  -248008

Phone – 0135-2787750, Mobile  9411114879,

E-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com

Website –  www.corruptionindrdo.com/

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3.       Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, United Progressive Alliance             Fax no.23018651