6^th February 2011

Dear Dr  Saraswat Ji Good Morning

Long ago Sir Albert Einstein visited and he was impressed with the scientific foundations lead new born country may be it was 1954. Pt Nehru the then Prime Minister of India showed the road map of Indian scientific mission.

On 1^st Feb 2011 the soul of late Sir Albert Einstein visited once again the different premier scientific organizations of the India and the somehow got attracted with doon valley and entered into rich library of DEAL, DRDO, Dehradun. He was shocked to see that the library is situated in 5^th floor and entry card are needed for fixed visiting hours of the library. Einstein wanted to see some old books and journals; he got it and set on the reading table. In the process of reading his relativity theory he noticed that the word relativity is has been very carefully replaced to relative and same word has been corrected at all the places where ever it has appears in the text. The corner of the page a small signature of Sh R C Aggarwal, Director, DEAL, Dehradun justifies the correction made on 1^st November 2007. Out of curiosity Einstein opened some more books and journals saw the chapter of relativity but he was astonished to see the correction similar as has seen in the first book.

In the mean time probably a librarian with sky blue turban (matching turban with India’s current Prime Minister) appeared and started banging to the attended and shouted that “when nobody is in the library who dare to opened the books and journals and that was too 20-30 together, you know director, DEAL does not like that anybody should read the books because he always said to young scientists whatever you learnt in your college is sufficient, it is not an educational institute. Scientists are supposed to engage them in procurement activity, as we have to sign several contracts, some are in pipe line and to fix some more deals,  I am always alone running to Hyderabad /Bangalore to identify the private firms, only Hemant Kumar Gupta, HMM helping me to fix some of vendors. “

With the help of attendant the librarian dumped those books in the closed chest and put a lock in the reading hall.

Einstein probably sensed the worst condition of last 6o years scientific achievement in India and wrote in the foot note of a page “India definitely would have become super power in 2020 had the scientific community been done justice to their work.”

Whatever World Bank funds granted to India annually goes back to foreign firms against import of equipments/ systems/ subsystems/ components. Then he wrote further that under technology development people here are doing experimental works principally to acquire new knowledge. This is not the proper method. Basic research is always done in universities. Technology development is the basis of production and field  application development is prior phase of production, development has following components – design, design research/ analysis/ concept, development of prototype, pilot production scheme, process of transforming design data in to product manufacture, integration, assembly, inspection, testing, quality assurance.

Before going out of DEAL he recommended that only the methodical approach can translate in to the product.

Sir, as I suggested you America have hardened its fixed frequency radio set RT-841/PRC 77, the antenna hardened against EMP bears the number 80-271B. if the hardening cost of fixed frequency radio designed and developed by DEAL comes out to be 1 lakh, Army would prefer to purchase 1 lakh set at once, so the total earning of DRDO would be Rs 10000000000. This will be a firm order because nuclear conflict is inevitable as we are surrounded by nuclear states. Everyone no by recent press release that Pakistan now having 110 nuclear warheads.

DEAL is competent  enough to design & develop a radio which has gone for production the team can be ordered to design a production model of fix frequency HF/VHF radio. The design should be simplest using slow devices. I hope you will not ignore my suggestion as it will be a compromise to national security.

Thanking you

Regards

Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun-248008
Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
E-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com
Website – www.corruptionindrdo.com

2^nd February 2011

Dear Dr  Saraswat Ji Good Morning

I would like to thank  you for the follow up action on the complaint in respect of Sh. Hemant Kumar Gupta, Scientist ‘F’, Head Material Management in DEAL, Raipur Road, Dehradun and Sh A K Tyagi, Scientist ’F’, CPIO, DRDO Hqrs.

In Sh Hemant Kumar Gupta’s case his God Father Sh R C Aggarwal, Director, DEAL constituted a committee headed by Sh K N Rao, Scientist ‘G’ and best part of that he has chosen member of committee Sh Prakash Chand Scientist ‘G’ who has a vast experience in manipulating such issues and he was groomed by Dr A S Bains, Ex Director, DEAL. Mr Prakash Chand manipulated similar issue of Sh R.K.Aggarwal’s Sc ‘G’ and Associate Director, SDR Temporary Duty issue in which he traveled by ordinary bus and submitted taxi bill in 2003. Sh Hemant Kumar Gupta somehow manage a forged document from railway that he was not traveled by his booked ticket. I have already submitted a RTI request for that railway ticket information that whether the ticket was cancelled, who was travelled in that particular seat. I have doubt that nothing will come out in this enquiry, God father Sh R C Aggarwal will give him scot free passage. But Deal’s boys  young scientists and staff are watching the proceeding very minutely because they also want to get rid of corrupt official of DEAL.

Sh R C Aggarwal’s tenure as Director, DEAL will be remembered as blank period, he has violated all the government norms and helped the nepotism to grow.

Sir, regarding Sh A.K Tyagi an inquiry headed by Sh Pant, Vigilance Officer, DIAT is going on, sitting at DRDO Hqrs Sh A.K Tyagi is trying to manage and fabricating the papers from his suppliers/ vendors friends whom he  obliged in his tenure at DIAT (like Murgan etc.) But the old copy of Nature Magazine so far nobody has scene at DIAT campus (Total subscription cost 25 lakhs).  Sh A.K Tyagi use to meet vendor at Delhi and for his frequent TD’s during the said period can be verified from records.

I have doubt that chairman of the inquiry committee Sh Pant will do justice because he himself is involved in so many corrupt practices reported by gazette officer (Scientist ‘D’) from DIAT, Pune itself.

I hope you will appreciate my initiative to clean DRDO from corruptions/ nepotisms as this will broaden your mission of “transforming DRDO into a high performing result oriented organization”

On republic day parade along with army contingent horses from president’s body guards also participates. But the horse does not know when to relive nature call and in front of VVIP’s it does not bother at all and shows its dis association from the ceremony. The commanders however have full respect/ honor for the ceremony.

Similarly you have a mission but “directors of DRDO labs are insensitive to national cause”, they are busy to fulfill their desires, they have to set a new records of corruption and nepotism. They behave as they are not part of the Indian constitution.

Thanking you

Regards

Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun-248008
Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
E-mail id prabhudoon@gmail.com
Website –  www.corruptionindrdo.com

Dear Dr Saraswat Ji Jaihind

On the eve of republic day we demonstrate our strength in managing of the country’s defence. DRDO has always demonstrated its weapon developed indigenously. The organization relaxes but the SA to RM knows the truth behind the scene. When the cost of DRDO budget was raised from 63 crores / year to 1100 crores/ year and estimates future development program then in mid eighties one lakh crores, this cost was estimated based on the indigenous development of MBT, IGMDP, LCA etc. In 2011 you have repeated the 1985 figure one lakh crores, it means we have to go long way.

The reason of failures are numerous, let us take the example of procurement methods adopted by crook scientists. We do not have explored the reliable manufacturer of the systems/ sub systems/ components. Due to limitations of informations the mail order firms are declared by indenter under pressure of competent authorities that is director as only source of manufacturers. This is done only to get a huge hefty commission/ omissions. The country’s interest is overshadowing by the personal interest. The scientists who were supposed to harden the backbone of country’s defence were diverted to comparing their asset with bureaucrats of other ministries.

The second major cause is NEPOTISM and its spread in all 52 Labs of DRDO like epidemic. The latest example of nepotism is all the blue eyed boys of strong stalwards of DRDO are appointed as directors of DIHR-Leh, DRL-Tezpur, ITM- Mussoorie and ISSA, Delhi, all these Labs directors are always away (90%) from their work place to either Delhi or Bangalore, where they have their families. The concern Lab like an orphan and no one bother for output. This data any one can confirm from DRDO Hqrs.

What are nation’s requirements, what is useful for users is not at all concerned by these so called DRDO technocrats, they only think for those areas where they can easily fool the users. US, Russia, UK, Sweden, Israel, Japan, China and other so many countries having Software Defined Radio and it is openly available off the self in world market and the cost of started from 650$ to 4000 $. Any new system takes 15 years for production model development where user has given satisfactory clearances. With this time schedule Indian SDR will come in 2025 and the sanction cost of 100 crores will become 1000 crores. Please think over it.

In fact India need very badly NEMP hardened simple radio, if Dr Saraswat in his tenure able to deliver a reliable EMP hardened fix frequency indigenous radio to forces, will be remembered in history of India.

On this occasion we may introspect our strength and weakness and redraw the DRDO programs, it may be beneficial for users.

I hope by the end of this February many big corrupt officials of DRDO are going on superannuation and you have the opportunity to get rid of their useless advice. Please beware with their adopted sons and daughters who are eating DRDO like termite.

Hope you are looking the feasibility of following projects.

i)    Seizing & freezing the auto engine from a safe distance to counter Fidayeen attack.

ii)    Deep sea (400m-500m) submarine communication technology for mission   mode operation

Jaihind                          Jaihind                                Jaihind

Regards

Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun-24800
Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
E-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com prabhudoon@gmail.com
Website –  www.corruptionindrdo.com

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1. Prime Minister Office 011-23019545 /  23016857
2. Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, United Progressive Alliance  Fax no.23018651
3. Defence Minister  Fax No 011- 23015403/23910044

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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New Delhi, Oct 21, IANS:

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday held the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) responsible for the killing of eight civilians in a live bomb explosion in 2002 in Orissa.

It asked the DRDO to pay Rs.3 lakh as compensation to the family members of each of those killed. The human rights body said that based on reports provided by the defence ministry, it observed that the bomb which exploded and killed eight people at Chandipur range in Balasore district of Orissa July 26, 2002, was picked up from the testing range area of DRDO. The commission directed the defence secretary to submit the compliance report along with proof of payment within eight weeks from the order. “The commission noted there was some negligence on part of the Army personnel in collection of all the shells fired during the test firing at the range. Also, there does not appear to be any proper arrangement for preventing access to the site by the villagers who gather used shells for extracting metal out of the same and this is to the knowledge of the authorities concerned,” the NHRC noted. According to NHRC, the DRDO, in response to the show-cause notice of the commission, said Sep 13, 2010, that the incident in question cannot be attributed to the DRDO since no such incident was brought to its notice. “It also said that it is not possible to enclose the range area by fencing and possibility of a shell getting lost may be there despite efforts to collect 100 percent shells during the test firing,” it said. The commission found DRDO’s stand as contradictory and said that it is strange that the DRDO remained oblivious of this incident till 2009 despite the news report and the first notice in the matter issued by the commission to the defence ministry’s secretary on Dec 19, 2002. “The commission is of the considered view that the incident in question took place due to negligence at some point of time on part of DRDO officials in collecting shells and, hence, the affected persons must be compensated,” it said.

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