Manu Pubby New Delhi, November 4, 2014 | UPDATED 20:04 IST- Indiatodayin
The government has struck down a request by the DRDO to grant four of its top scientists a service extension with the Prime Minister stepping in personally to ensure that the organisation does not add to its massive bank of scientists who have been working well past their retirement age.
In a move that has brought cheer to the younger scientists of the organization, the PMO refused to entertain a request by the DRDO’s departmental peer review committee to extend the service of four of its lab directors beyond the age of 60 years.
In the past, recommendations of the peer review committee were routinely accepted by the government and in most cases scientists were given an extension of two years to four years. However, as reported by the India Today, the new government is keen to have a younger profile of scientists in the organization and has already expressed concern about the increasing age profile in a field that requires cutting edge technology and expertise.
Sources said that four scientists including Prof MP Kaushik (DRDE Director), Dr VC Padaki (DEBEL Director) and DS Sistla Ravind (LRDE Director) had been recommended by DRDO Chief Avinash Chander for an extension of service. While the file made it all the way through the appointments committee of cabinet, sources said that the request was turned at the Prime Minister’s desk. The DLRL Lab director is also not to get an extension of service.
Officials said that the decision not to grant an extension was taken as part of the government’s new policy to promote younger talent with PM Narendra Modi already instructing that at least five labs should have directors below the age of 35.
However, as things most top scientists at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) who are tasked with creating weapons for future have passed the retirement age of 60 and are on service extensions.
The old age problem starts from the very head of the organization with DRDO chairman Avinash Chander already on two extensions. The previous government even approved a extraordinary contract to give Chander a 18-month contractual tenure from November when he turns 64, the maximum age till which service extensions can be given.
As reported by the India Today, most director generals at the headquarters and the heads of six of DRDO’s 54 labs and establishments are currently on extension. As many as 10 of the 16 top DRDO scientists are on extension. Internal surveys have found that nearly 87 per cent of the young scientists who join DRDO soon get disenchanted with the archaic, rigid structure of the research body that does not reward extraordinary performance with proportional career growth.
poor work culture is not able to motivate young talent
Good decision taken by PM
All those on extension , has hardly any credit which can satisfy them as scientist. They are not comfortable with their academic degrees. Most of them pull their life on TA /DA. DRDO will get a lease of life the day these experts leave the organization.
Dictator and Terrorist Ravind Sistla Never Fit to become DS
Nor he was fit to become Sc B
He made LRDE scientific community to suffer badly for the years.
he humiliated Each and every one LRDE.
Now God gave insulting reply.
He can’t show his face in LRDE.
He applied leave went home after this news.
He had proclaimed to be in LRDE as director for 4 years with his non sense attitude.
All those scientists of his nature should wake up and live peaceful career.
All LRDE community pray for his Healthy Peaceful Retirement life.
At last No LRDE scientists are cruel minded like him.
Jesus Please forgive all his sins
Don’t make his Baduku Bus Stand (Life Care of Bus Stand) (His favouriteTelugu quote for others )
All so called senior scientists of LRDE now at least try
to learn how to give replies to Non sense behaviour such as Ravind.
Wake up. Leave up to expectations of nation.
Don’t live for your promotions.
All these days no one was dared to speak against his non sense acts.
One day you have to retire like him.
Retire with pride Not with shame and cursing of thousands
Thanks to Narendra Modi.
We are very greatful to our PM
who sticked to his words.
Jai Hind
Great Job by the Honorable PM. Indeed the PM is not only a man of words but a man of action.
We from LRDE are truly thankful to you from the bottom of our hearts for this decision on not giving extension to Ravind Sistla. Infact the making him the Director itself was a Himalayan blunder of DRDO.
From the date of his appointment he had no vision as he was blinded with power. The only mission was Extension for 2 years. All the projects were shown in PPTs, but nothing materialised.
The past year was spent show caseing the achievements of the previous Directors to the the Peer committee members for the sake of extensions.
In deed it required the PM to put things in the right direction.
It will take a lot of time for LRDE to get back from all the wrong decisons.
Infact the beneficieries are only a few of his Chelas who were made PDs’ and tutored to give wrong information of Project Status and the whole nation was fooled. We would request the PM to kindly order a Project audit by a third party agency to understand the Gravity of the situation.
Many Scientists were humiliated and insulted in Public forum on a personal level inspite of being proven performers because of his acute inferority complex.
Infact careers have been destroyed and many Scientists had to go through a harrowing period till this action by our Honorable PM.
We pray and hope that LRDE will never again fall in this sort of a trap and the performing and sincere Scientists will be recognised or at least not demoralised.
Looking forward to a New Era in LRDE and DRDO .
Under the Dynamic Leadership of our PM, we assure that we are equally enthusiastic to Contibute to the Nation.
Request you once again to kindly ensure Project Audits to ensure accountability . Other wise the “Chaltha Hai ” Attittude people will continue to flourish.
Jai Hind
A extremely good decision by PM. Extension culture has ruined DRDO. JO AADMI SATHA SAAL MEIN KUCHH NAHIN KAR PAYA VO DO SAAL MEIN KYA KAR PAYEGA. ACHHE DIN AANE WALE HAIN
PM congrats for saving Drdo remove corrupt H Sc & DS and above
Thanks
Dr Tamilmani will also go like dr Ravind sistla if not control his chellas curruption levels in his Aero cluster. Tamil mani should wake up.
PM man of action,
if anyone is keen to contribute further after retirement, help nation but not by blocking others.
eska beda bhai hamara pass hai. the great bluff master, let us see what PM will do with him. One unfortunate lot of scientists pry this moto of PM to continue for at least 4 months.
Ravind Sistla Committed Lots of Corruptions during his tenure. Recent times he was acting as he was the only true Indian. PM should set up independent committee for inquiry into his Corruptions in AD program, along with ex DRDO chief, M/s AMPL and Data Pattern Contracts. He should be terminated from the service for his serious crime he did while he was on Deputation to NTRO i.e, Loosing Laptop with sensitive information of the country.
Request PM to set up inquiry from CBI for corruptions committed by Ravind Sistla and violations of Human rights in LRDE over the years.
LRDE scientists wants Justice. for
a) Corrupt handling of Projects
b) Human Rights Violations at LRDE
c) Fooling Everyone including SA/DG;s with his PPT gimmick and no actual work on ground.
d) Accountability of projects over the years.
He should be punished for his sins before he gets his first pension..
Jai Hind
This is right move by PM Modi Ji. It is very unfortunate that Shri Avinash Chander is forwarding the names of extensions of Scientists when he himself is retiring on 30 November 2014. This is against ethics and honesty as at verge of retirement he should not took any administrative & financial decision. PM Modi Ji is having great wisdom to judge the intentions of DRDO for extension to its Scientists after 60 years viz corruption, enjoyment, money and time pass. All DRDO scientists should retire at 60 only and extension business should be abolished for DRDO. Thanks a lot to PM Sir and his “Think Tank”.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/centre-bats-for-younger-scientists-pmo-strikes-down-extension-plea-of-top-scientists/1/399129.html
DRDO Scientists are beggar. They time pass (TP) upto 60 yeas and after that ask for extension by claiming “SKY IS FALLING ” , give me extension and ” I CAN SKY NOT TO FALL”.
Very Good & Firm decision by PM.
JAI KARNATAKA
Youngsters may be happy with it, now time for youngsters to work hard and show the out put. who are this young lot in drdo, majorities are KITH AND KIN of present top brass of drdo. Why they introduced RAC & CEPTEM, just to accommodate theirs beloved once. It should be abolished immediately to save poor people and country inlarge. Kith and kin doing curruption practice only with the support of their god fathers. Everybody should tap their’s inner concise and come out with positive attitude, then only our beloved PM dream become true, individual and country will plerrish.
Thanks a lot to our Hon’ble PM for such a wise approach towards an organisation which needs utmost attention for national progress..
Dear PM ji, Congratulations for such a good decision by not granting extension to Director LRDE. Also Please review the second extension of K D Nayak, DS and DG for MeDCoS ( A Cluster for 2 labs). He has got his second extension for his contribution to improve the condition of ITI, RaiBarelli (Soniaji’s Constituency) last year. He along with his chela Sunjay Burman (His handpicked Director of CAIR) has visited RaiBarelli to find out that the sinking institute is a good organization to be revived only to revive their positions and extensions by the then UPS Government. K D Nayak, Has got second extension only by pleasing the then MoS(Defence). Please investigate his visit to Rai Barelli.
K D Nayak and Sunjay Burman Duo are playing Havoc in the system Please investigate. Either KDN is on TD to Bangalore from Friday to Monday (Only to enjoy with family) otherwise Sunjay Burman is on TD to Delhi. They have developed a habit of going to foreign trips every now and then. Please find the number of foreign trips these duo have made since last 3 years at the cost of tax payers money.
Let me confirm to all of you modiji never said so, I.e what has been for 5 labs! Either report correctly or read again what he said.
Many Many Thanks to Narendra Modi for very Wise decision for not giving Extension to all aging scientists and especially to LRDE director Ravind who stopped my Transfer request and promotion without reason. This Joker was thinking he is Super man and Avatar in LRDE.
Good bye Joker 420.
Thanks to the Honorable PM for this decision. And now the appointment of a new DM who is from IIT we are sure DRDO will soar to new heights .
Please have a serious look at the functioning of LRDE. As during the last year the establishment reached its lowest level in all spheres right from Project Management to Human Resources.
The PM rightly did not give extension to Ravind. Imagine a person who could not contibute till attaining the age of 60 years and spent most of his time in the library for 5 years will do wonders in the extension period.
We Scientists were forced to attend Sunday Lectures. This was primarily to get himself educated as he was technically ZERO.
Added to this LRDE is the only DRDO lab where there is a Management council consisting of 2/3 Senior Most Scientists….who for the sake of Extension were ready to loose their self respect and funcioned like the proverbal 3 monkeys (See no evil, Hear no Evil and Speak No Evil). They were functioning like Glorified Clerks studying the files and clearing it for Ravind to sign …all this for the sake of extension, thus Ravind was under the impression that he is absolved of all responsibility. It is shameful when our PM oversaw the Mars Orbitter Mission and announced that he was there to take responsibility in case of failure, here we have leaders who want only authority to misuse and shy away from responsibilty. While PM gives most respect and encouragement for Women, here the Women Scientists were harassed and humiliated and it was indeed surprisng that none of them approached the Human rights Ministry, or Womens Welfare Ministry ( Unbderstandable to a certain extent because DRDO will constitute a committe and find fault with the compaintant)
We would request the New DM and PM to please immediately have a serious audit of the projects in LRDE by a non DRDO agency to Audit to ensure that there is no further fooling of the Nation with false achievements. Various Project Directors were replaced and some elevated purely on the grounds of proximity, favoritism and gartitude for faithfulness rather than on merit. Most of the Project status were shown in the PPts which is in actual very very far from reality.
This is the reason a serious Audit is required….and non DRDO agency because DRDO committies will brush problems under the Carpet ( Agency should be preferably from ISRO,BARC etc.)
We are confident and hopeful that atleast now onwards there will more accountablity and this EXTENSION CULTURE will be stopped once and for all, to enable youngsters to grow rather that and get frustrated , rust and rot.
Hope we can contibute sincerely to the country.
Hope an End to Chaltha Hai also.
Regarding women Scientists harassment, you know why women scientist are not approaching Human right or women welfare ministry because they know the fate of Dr Neelam Bhalla, Sc ‘F’,DTRL whose future spoiled by DRDO authorities she was superseded by more than 1000 scientists. DRDO set a good HR example now she become master of Indian Law and fighting cases in CAT to Supreme Court.
Ravind is as bad as projected here.
He had no vision but he ran out of time to realise it.
he was having no clarity to drive program and make things moving
He was a task master and made everyone to work for his PPTs and visit arrangements only.
It’s fortunate for LRDE that he didn’t get his extension.
His bad quality is that he didn’t take every one with him. The position and power ruined him.
He neglected demotivated working class with his tongue
he started interacting only with LMC and his chela’s .
he treated everyone as untouchables.
If he had come down to lab alone and interacted with ground level
LRDE today may in better position.
He created bad name to LRDE with his egoism.
spoiled relationship with CDA, DGs and posted out
all those who spoke against him to DG office or sidelined from active projects.
Sincere request to him that after his retirement he should not try to occupy some
DRDO chair or
Consultant position at BEL or some company or
NTRO consultancy.
he passed his productive professional innings long back
he can’t contribute further he should understand and live his retirement life quietly
He can’t bring harmony in work place where ever he goes.
he is just power hungry and egoistic. He can’t become a good leader who can take everybody with him and can listen wisely.
Request to all those agencies / organisations think thrice before appointing him for post retired roles. Keep all the comments in mind and give a chance to Ravind.
Very shamfull fellow. He wanted salary even after retirement. Needs payment for others hardwork. For personal benifit he has humiliated a lot of respected senior scientist.
LRDE was one of the coveted organization and many qualified persons wanted to enter here even from PSUs and the varied works that were going on had tremendous application potential and there was very good rapport between different levels of employees from Director to a peon. There were difference of opinions discordant notes but all ahd one goal of this is our LRDE and be it in sport or cultural activities or research works and development activities there were full cooperation from all the staff.
However in the last decade it has become a place for young scientist to join read books learn things and jump over and some of the senior s had Chaltha Hai attitude and thus the things started sloping down.
Surely it is needed to revamp DRDO and especially LRDE GTRE ADE et.al., by bringing in youngsters ambitious persons in R and D activities and pump in fresh blood and sure with the firm decisions from PMO it may not be long before the DRDO is back to its glory.
Extremely good an bold decision by PMO. A lot of junior Scientists are leaving DRDO because of lack of professionalism. DRDO is driven by Microsoft PowerPoint and “Tea + Cashew” meetings, not by R&D. Why to give extension for a person who did nothing in his whole career and wants two more years. In most of the labs scientists are doing sundry work. PMO should look into this..
SA Avinash Chander also goes today 28th Nov 2014. Kudos to Modi.
TITAHARI a bird keeps her leg towards sky conveys that if sky falls it will atleast save the animal.
In DRDO the incompetent scientist through back door got the entry and with CHAMCHA GIRI could manage DIRECTORS post. After retirement they helped each other to get successive extensions where money laundrying hawala etc was the main business..