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 3rd June 2010 & mailed on: 3rd June 2010
4.2 To FAA: 20th July 2010 & mailed on: 20th July 2010
5. Particulars of Decisions:
5.1 Reference No & Date of CPIO’s Decision: DIITM/02/2091/P/2010 dated 18th June 2010
5.2 Reference No & Date of FAA’s Decision: DIITM/02/2091/P/2010-19 dt 16th 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: 21st June 2010
6.2 FAA: 19th August 2010
Details of information sought: My RTI to CPIO, DRDO Hqrs. 3rd June 2010
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.
- 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 3rd 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: 16th Nov 2010
Signature of appellant/complainant
u should also show answers of these queries. and if DRDO dont give answers then u should go to central information commission and high court.
Your website is really unique. Many thanks for that.
Sir registered case in RDE ENGRS DRDO unit advent to TATAPower Harrassment in 2013 . I hereby request DRDO not to carry hypocrisy & support Tatapower crime so plz release Technology based IT Forms & stop harrasing me health wise . Thus now I need authorised ackwledgement from DRDO as we are part of DRDOTechnology research. RDE Engrs Pune is misusing the union ntwk instead of supporting us as being rtd Employee Balaram G Sawant daughter Jyoti B Sawant/ Snehankita Vasant Mene.
It’s high time we r facing DRDO RDE Engrs hand shake for self motive with Honeywell Airforce Tatapower & local city Pune police commissioner.
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