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To
The CPIO
DEAL, Raipur Road
DEHRADUN – 248001
Hello,
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005. 
1.       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.
2.       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
Find the application fee for the request attached with this application. If you feel that above requested information does not pertain to your department then please follow the provisions of Section 6(3) of the RTI Act, 2005/Also as per the provisions of the RTI Act, 2005 please provide the details (Name and Designation) of the first appellate authority w.r.t to your department with the reply to the above request., where I may if required file my first appeal.

I do hereby declare that I am a citizen of India. Kindly provide me with the information at the address/email id mentioned with the application. I request you to ensure that the information is provided before the expiry of the 30 day period after you have received the application. 

Enclosed- Rs 10 Postal order 60E034426

Regards,
Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur
Dehradun-248008
Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879, e-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com
Date – 26-05-2010
Place-DEHRADUN
Reply of CPIO, DEAL 
CPIO, DEAL Letter No DEAL/RTI/2010/38 Dated 31st 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.

Now I appealed  with  Dr. Prahlada, Appellate Authority, CC R&D

Date 10th July 2010
RTI/FAA/DEAL/FF/10/7/2010


To                                                                                 To
The Finance Secretary                                              The Chief Information Commissioner
Room No.- 130, North Block                                     CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION
New Delhi-110001                                                     August Kranti Bhavan, Bhikaji Kama Place                 
                                                                                      NEW DELHI 110066
To
Smt. Nita Kapoor                                                        To
Secretary (Defence Finance)                                    The Central Vigilance Commissioner
139, South Block, New Delhi                                     Central Vigilance Commission
                                                               &n
bsp;                       Satarkta Bhawan, GPO Complex
                                                                                       Block-A, INA, NEW DELHI – 110023
To                                                                                           
Dr.S.C.Pandey                                                                      
Additional Financial Adviser (P) & JS                       To             
537, DRDO Bhavan, Rajaji Marg                               The PCDA (R&D)       
New Delhi-110105                                                       West Block – V,  R. K. Purum
                                                                                        New Delhi – 110 066
The Right to Information Act, 2005
First Appeal for Central Govt.

I.D. No_________ Date: _________ [For office use] 

To                                                                                                                   
Dr. Prahlada, Appellate Authority, CC R&D (Ae & SI) & DS,
Room No.439, DRDO Bhawan , Rajaji Marg
New Delhi – 110105

Sir,
As I am aggrieved by decision/no decision of Central Public Information Officer, I hereby file this appeal for your kind decision. 

1. Details of appellant
1.1       Full Name :                 Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
1.2.      Full Address :             21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun-248008
1.3       Phone/Cell No.            0135-2787750 / 919411114879
1.4       Email ID :          prabhu@dandriyal.com Blog – http://corruptionindrdo.blogspot.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 -248001
2.3 Name of Public Authority: DEAL, DRDO, Ministry of Defence

3. Details of RTI application to CPIO:
Date of Application  : 31st  May  2010
Mailed on:  28th  May 2010
by  speed post 
 
4. Particulars of payment of filing fee:
Paid Rs.10/- by   Postal Order No. 60E034426
5. Details of information sought:
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005. 
1.    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.
2.    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 re
gistration 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
6. Particulars of Decision of CPIO:
    i)      CPIO, DEAL Letter No DEAL/RTI/2010/38 Dated 31st 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)
   ii)      CPIO, DEAL Letter DEAL/RTI/2010/Misc dated 29th June 2010 Para – 4 information completely denied (Copy enclosed)

7. Brief facts of the case: 
Why did they call it sensitive? I never asked the project details, I only asked for the procurement details and they can’t be sensitive, because they are procured from an open market with tender.
Dr A.S Bains, then Director, DEAL, DRDO, Dehradun, when appointed in DRDO at DRDL, Hyderabad, who did the police verification? The Shah Times News Report (Copy enclosed) says that he might be relation with “Babar Khalsa” terrorist outfit, who was active in Punjab insurgency and had Hqrs in England.
The money minted by Dr. A. S. Bains with few of his close associates by establishing these fake firms might be used for supporting terrorist outfits. At that time Dr. A. S. Bains was the Director, DEAL; orders were placed with these firms for the supply of items in quantity with enormously high prices and siphoned the precious foreign currency.
DRDO Hqrs since the expose of this case has come under pressure and has declared the purchase made, as sensitive. The officers who were Scientist ‘C/D’ during that period, were given out of turn promotions as reward to conceal the facts. Sh. R.P. Dixit, Sc’G’ and holding presently the charge of CFA in DEAL, Sh.S.C Jain Sc’G’  due to retirement has been given two years extension. Dr. K.D.Nayak Sc ‘H’, CC R&D and Sushil Verma, Sc’F’ were involved and were the master designer of these procurement from fake firms and as well as concealing the facts.
Dr. V.K.Atre, then SA to RM has a very close association with Dr.AS Bains, in fact Dr.Atre made him member of Sh. Arun Singh committee on defence expenditure, when I brought the facts of Dr.AS Bains to then NSA, Sh Brijesh Mishra personally. Dr.AS Bains was removed by each and every committee and was confined to DEAL only until he retired.
The appellate authority of DRDO, Dr. Prahlada is committed to protect Dr. A
S Bains and go to any extent to conceal the facts.
Only an independent agency is therefore required to investigate the total no of procurements cases / supplies under place with these fake firms and identify those culprits who still protecting the criminals.
During US sanction the uses of Custom Duty Exemption Certificates by these firms is required to be investigated, because to see the proximity with Dr.AS Bains the CDE’s might be used for benefiting terrorist outfits of Punjab.
i)      Both firms did business only with DEAL, Dehradun and belongs to one person  Lt.Col Deepak Badhwar, Resident of 37/7, Vijay Colony, Dehradun ( IB revealed and IB report is enclosed)
ii)     He is a good friend of Dr. A. S. Bains’s (then Director DEAL, Dehradun) ( News paper revealed copy enclosed)
iii)    Dr. A. S. Bains  (then Director DEAL, Dehradun) is a mysterious personality and might  be link with terrorist  as per news paper report (Paper cutting enclosed)
iv)   As per Tender Procurement Committee the supplied were state of art components/devices and were in the critical list of post US sanctions.   
v)    So question is whether both firms used CDE or not because they cannot import these items from US due to sanction.
vi)   It is the larger possibilities that with bonding with Dr. A. S. Bains the CDE might be used for support to terrorist outfit.
 Dr. A. S. Bains (then Director DEAL, Dehradun) aim was to damage the organization’s financial deals and help his friends, who were parting the hefty commission/omission. Example – a purchase of Digital display Synthesizer (DDFS) which was required for Composite Net Radio (CNR a prestigious project of DEAL), he directed project in-charge to put his friend’s company’s name (M/S Wave Components & Systems, 1409 W, Woodcrest, Fullerton CA 92833, USA) in the quotation enquiry. The best part of that the firm’s rep supplied the item in person (in the shape of scrape which is still lying with CNR project) at DEAL’s gate well before the quotation’s opening date and with item there were no papers enclosed that the items were imported from US. The plea was given by firm’s rep that his luggage was stolen at airport.  It can be verified with DEAL’s gate records. The matter was exposed by me, the file was closed but he had to give money to his friend, so again a new file was raised as per direction in proprietary base case with new nomenclature as DDES instead of DDFS, order were placed to US, LC opened, money was drawn but the item were not send from US. As expected that he had already delivered back at DEAL’s gate. After two years RBI asked for FE settlement, and then DEAL asked the firm to send anything against the said supply. But because of the Pokhran Blast, US sanction was imposed and company was not able to supply, but again they adopted DRDO’s Scientist gimmicked and arranged locally, a bogus airway bill no and with empty box they deposited via their Delhi based firm by courier. They forget that they established a relation between a firm and later on in other quotation they used this firm as their competitive.
M/s Wave Components and Systems          Contact Person – Mr.Manikant Thakur
1409 –W, Woodcrest                                     Ph – 310-541-3617
Fullertone, CA- 92833
Residence of Mr.ManiKant Takur as per US municipal records 
i)              Mr. Manikant Takur has accepted that he is good friend of Dr.A.S.Bains to Tahalka Correspondent Mr. Shashi
ii)             The above firms received crores of rupees order from DEAL. The origin and existence of this firm is also mysterious.
iii)            The firms deals with only DEAL, Dehradun
iv)           The firms have no dealership of any manufactures
v)            The firm does not have a single leaflet/brochure’s/any professional existing document which proves that they are very well in the business later on due course of CBI inquiry they generated few but they found bogus.
vi)           The firm supplied MMIC components/Li batteries, quartze crystal etc. It shows big variation in business field
vii)          The firm always asked for splitting the order because to avoid FERA and other agencies who normally not bother for small transactions.
viii)         The asked for change the nomenclature of the items so it can help to fool, financial member, custom authorities and US commerce department.
ix)           Not a single fruitful output was generated by DEAL by using items supplied by said firm. If one can go for physical verification will find the only scarp, in case of 35 GHz Down Converter the CBI, Dehradun was found that out of 150 nos half were not working, some odd 20+ were pasted without use or any output and some they said were given to Project Trishul (i.e 18 GHz project not 35 GHz) and rest to CERI, Pilani. It is a complete eyewash.
x)            What was the DEAL’s  gain, all scientists who helped in procurement got outstanding reports and got promotions the main example Dr.KD Nayak presently holding post  of CC R&D and Mr. Sushil Kumar Verma presently Sc ‘F’ and recently posted to DRDO Hqrs with Dr KD Nayak, so they can again create a new gimmick.
After Pokhran Blast all pending orders of M/S Wave Components & Systems,  1409 W, Woodcrest, Fullerton  CA 92833, USA  were converted in RE and diverted to garment and rice exporter firms belongs to Dr. Bains landlord Lt Col Deepak Badhwar.
1.            M/S Wave Components System Associates (India) Ph – / fax -26225293
M-39 (LGF), Chitranjan Park
New Delhi – 110019
2.            M/S Celestia Impex Pvt. Ltd Ph/fax- 26225293 As MTNL record this phone
557, Tower-III Kailash Apatment                       belongs to Lt.Col Bhatia Kewal
              New Delhi- 110065                                              Kumar
Lt.Col Deepak Badhwar, Resident of 37/7, Vijay Colony, Dehradun owns both the above firms. He is a regular visitor to US, and good friend of Dr. A.S.Bains, Director, DEAL, DRDO, Dehradun ( As IB report revealed the facts) and also related with Mr. Moti Kapur of 4804- Astreria, Torrance, CA – 90503, this address they used for another firm M/s S.K. Components for quotations game.
Just to compete the coram for quotation formalities they included two more firms name which do not exist in US.( I have collected sufficient evidences in respect which can be produce to government investigation agencies)
  1. M/s SK Components                                     Contact Person – Sivam Kapur
4804,W Asteria Street                                     Ph – 310-370-3856    
TORRANCE, California –90503
             Residence of Moti Kapur /Indra Kapur as per municipal records of Torrance relative of Lt.Col Deepak Badhwar
2.    M/s Ruby Electronics         Ph – 618-322-0873
145 – Woodland Dr
Salem, IL – 62881
Residence of Dr. Gautam Jha, MD and well known medical practitioner at Salem, US and have no connection with any electronics business activity.
Dr. AS Bains also violated the govt. rules by asking quotation from US based firms during US sanctions for just route the money of poor tax payers of India.  Anyone can imagine the quotations are coming from US and TPC reflecting in the minutes these companies are well known firms in their field based on the DEAL’s procurement records.
Sir, have any finance rep ever asked about the credential of any firms or verify with any other lab or source, I can understand the pressure on other TPC members because they are from DRDO and always worried for their carriers.
Under the forging details there is no room to allow the culprits to go scot free. Anyone asks details from various investigation agencies who have worked in this respect and are perplexed. Please contact Major Chetri, then in-charge, MI, Dehradun, Mr. Bist, then SP, CBI, Dehradun, IB, Dehradun, Director, CAG, Dehradun.
This is a tip of iceberg if you people allow me to work with financial agencies for uprooting the corruption in DRDO; I can produce tons of information and info related to their modus of operandi.
8. Reasons/grounds for this appeal:
   i) It is clear cut case of corruption and national security interest.
ii) A holistic approach of expose the weak procurement process of DRDO as a façade.
             
9 Any other information in support of appeal: 
I requested top financial authorities of Government of India and all responded and seriously take the issue of national interest. (Copy enclosed)
CVC is already taken it as complain and doing needful action to save our premier organisation DRDO from corrupt official. (Copy enclosed)
   
10. Prayer/relief sought for: 
It is requested that please provide me correct information as per request of my RTI dated 31st May 2010 in larger public interest, because it is directly related to corruption and poor tax payers money.

11. Enclosures: 

i)              My RTI request dated 31st  May 2010
ii)             CPIO, DEAL Letter No DEAL/RTI/2010/38 Dated 31st May 2010
iii)            CPIO, DEAL Letter DEAL/RTI/2010/Misc dated 29th June 2010
iv)           IB confidential report DVS/02/2020/M/1/20-A
v)            News paper Clip Shah Times
vi)           News Paper Clip Rastriya Sahara
vii)          News clips Danik Jagran
viii)         My letter to top financial authorities of Government of India No.RTI/FINEXP/1/6/6/2010
ix)           Copy of my letter to CIC dated 25th May 2010
x)            Copy of CVC letter no CVC/RTI/10/Misc/001/91611 dated 25th June 2010
xi)           Copy of CGDA letter No. AN/III/3053/RTI/CPIO/Vol.VI dated 17th June 2010
xii)          Copy of CAG letter no 10(2)/TA/2010/189-191 dated 28th June 2010
12. 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 any information commission nor is pending with any Court or tribunal or authority.

Regards

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

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Question : Elderly Citizen of India: Can we first know what  Prabhu Dandriyal has contributed to the Country as DRDO employee drawn so much salary and now pension & other benefits from Public fund has contributed. What are the systems he has inducted into services during his service? Can we know that first please? (Question asked in the comment box alongside)
Answer:- I joined DRDO in 1982 as Radio Fitter in propagation division, DEAL. I actively participated in engineering link designing in Himalayan region in western command. This helps the army to communicate round the year.
Constrain the nuclear conflict and its fallout. Participant in conceiving a project and delivered a systematic protection mechanism for all electrical and electro-mechanical devices. This became a mile stone in EMP Protection.
Mine detection being used from 1st world war is envisaging a method to locate mines.  However, the anti-national powers did obstruct the development proposal. Therefore we are still using hand held 1st generation mine detectors.
I participated in 15th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica as winter member and establish round the year communication link by using low power HF.
Also, I participated in AGNI- II trail as communication officer for the mission and witnessed the target explosion by AGNI near Indira point.
When there was communication blackout noticed in Kargil War, I participated in search of easy and workable point to point and point to multi point HF NVIS mode of communication for the services.

When I started to expose corrupt and anti-national DRDO official, then Director, DEAL kept me without work for two months, I sent my salary cheques to PM’s relief fund with my representation that without work I cannot take mercy salary from Government of India.

And about question of pension Sir, I left DRDO from May 2001 and they gave me CRS from Feb2003. They just finalized my pension in vindictive way in last April 2010, but till date I have not drawn my pension and am thinking that if I   receive any money then I will use for it fighting against corruption and anti-national corrupt official of DRDO.

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Who is to blame? – Part –II

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Earth revolves round the Sun, Sun rises in the east, sets in the west, both truths are known to humans from the journey of civilizations. Copernicus and Kepler gave the theoretical justification of the above.
In DRDO the Scientists and Technologists also accept the above statements. But as soon as Scientists are given power of Director to lead a laboratory he forgets the above statements that is the Sun is fixed and Earth
revolves, he proposes a new theory after charge assumption as director DRDO, that Earth is fixed and Sun revolves round the Earth and he gives the justification that the Sun’s rotation Sunrises in east and sets in the west.
DRDO directors since beginning of DRDO remain on the post until they retires. As a result they declare themselves the king of a small kingdom. The absolute financial powers, the recruitment power, the demotion power, the demolition power,  he declares himself as unquestionable leader.
 He runs the laboratory and Scientific Adviser to RM feel that whatever is his decision, it must be within the constitutional provision.
As long as directors follow constitutional provisions and understand his responsibilities and accountability, there is no chance of failure in product development because we are having the best manpower in the world.
But the truth of DRDO lab’s director, the day he assumes the charge, immediately crushes / tear off  the whole effort of his predecessor by reorganizing the technical scenario of the lab.  He removes the technical heads, put his own loyal man in that position which may prove the lucrative, put those on whom he has confidence to deal with the financial irregularities can be easily manipulated. The commission and omission the transfer of funds to relatives and friends accounts in the name of via different schemes and grants or business association. Acquiring lands in the name relatives, established friends and relatives firms’s business with his lab  are the important key elements of new director’s in the first phase.  In second phase he plans the foreign trips at least covering five /six countries to study their development efforts in the particular area for which as per charter of duties the works under going on in his lab with hidden agenda to tie up personal links with foreign firms.
Third phase, he take the step to kill enthusiasm of those Scientists who are working from the soul of their heart by sidelining them from real task and assigning them to sundry task. Why because the dedicated scientist and workers never co-operate with his suppliers who are supplying low quality/low quantity stuff to DRDO’s prestigious projects. This is one of the major and foremost reason of delay and failure of DRDO’s project.
This crime remains unnoticed by DRDO Hqrs as the representations are bounce back to individuals. The total efficiency of the lab reduces to 25% and this antinational activity results in to short closing of the projects which has importance for the country defence.
DRDO recently short close 450 such projects. If total cost is considered it’s come in to thousands and thousands crores.
The items imported under such projects are thrown in to scrape and then a new item again procured, some time the gentleman who procured those scrap again supply the item/equipment under new package to DRDO itself and believe it, this is the common gimmick in DRDO. People don’t know because south labs products are supplied in north labs and north labs supplied to south labs, and sometimes item routed through even foreign country.
These things happen because directors are having financial and administrative powers for long period. Now with few years back directors to camouflage their these technical scientific gimmick in defence procurements, remove or degrade or sidelined the UPSC appointed admin allied people  who are well versed with proper procurement process which is duly approved by government of India. They appointed or designated their scientist as head material managements, director management services etc. it is nothing but only the game of corruption. If our government will not look in to this believe me, DRDO will never ever be able to deliver any reliable, trustworthy, indigenous product for our defence forces.
Had the directors been appointed for tenure of three years only on rotation to look after the administration task with standing order from President of India not to interfere the technical program and the program/project directors would have been the financial powers to their program/project requirements.
The DRDO might have written a new chapter on technology development.
The directors are real criminals who justify their failures, incompetence and poor leadership in the name of new technology.
Who is to blame????

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Who is to blamed for this deterioration of premier R&D organisation?

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Since its inception, DRDO formulated a task which was to assist three services in their day to day technical requirements. Dr. Daulat Singh Kothari the First Scientific Adviser to RM followed by Prof. Suri Bhagavantham and Dr. Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri laid the foundation to strengthened the three services with technical backup. The then Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi provided all out support to R&D organisation. The missile program, the explosive research, the communication research and including acoustic were facilitated. Based on the foundation the charter duties were laid such that there won’t be duplication of work. There was honesty in the system, the greed was the lowest level, and people respected their jobs, worked hard, tandem with service officers. There was a mutually agreed, unwritten accountability. This was continued till Dr. Raja Ramanna was Scientific Adviser to RM.
When Dr.Vallampadugai Srinivasaraghavan Arunachalam took over charge of Scientific Adviser to RM, being Shanti Swaroop Bhatnager awardee, he gave a new direction to accelerate the research activity, so as to put Indian defence in forefront of self reliance. However, his long tenure as Scientific Adviser to RM will remembered as the period of “Infrastructure Development” , acquisition of plenty land(unused available in prime locations), building constructions(thousands square feet covered area now unutilized standing with most of the labs and one of the major source of siphoning money in the name of maintenance) , recruitment of huge manpower (low quality via RAC)  and proposition of major programs( Arjun Tank, IGMDP, LCA etc) were the key features.
Due to his close proximity with power corridor of the government, he had the blessing of holding absolute power as a result absolute corruption piped in to DRDO corridor.
Estate Management Unit (EMU), DRDO took over from Military Engineering Services (MES) for all major infrastructure development activities. Money started flowing in DRDO corridors, and scientific community also started developing a taste for money flow.
Now aim and objectives of top DRDO force start detourting, under major programs scientists/technologist stopped reinventing the wheel and started importing the items and derailed process of learning in various stages of development. The aim to develop import substitute left in the background and proving the concept came into the forefront by importing the obsolete technology mainly from Russia, Israel, USA, etc.
All the develop countries took minimum 15 years of time from the concept to prototype development, to user trials, to production of the equipment/systems. When output fails in user trails, DRDO authority gave a plea that “we are 100 crores people and nobody can attack on us”.
1999 Kargil war however exposed our systematic approach of development, questioned our efforts in strengthening the national defence. The infighting started in between R&D organisation, each national lab blamed each other for their incompetence. The gadria moving goats identified the intruders but our over surveillance systems failed to identify the barracks developed by intruders at LOC.
The subsequent Scientific Adviser to RM Dr. Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre, when assumed the charge stated to media that “in ten years we have not developed any products”. Unfortunately he was number-2 in DRDO for the last ten years. Then who did he blame.
In today’s scenario as far as product from DRDO is concerned we are no where except the demonstration capabilities to the user.
We have imported AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System), BFSR (Battle Field Surveillance Radar), Sea Skimmer Missiles and Land Mine Detectors. Who will analyze for this deterioration of R&D scenario. Crores and crores are spent on salaries, infrastructures developments, TA/DA for attending marriages, transport allowances, even though government transport are used.
Today the 52 labs of DRDO do not even have 52 products (each lab one end product)
Who is to blamed for this deterioration of premier R&D organisation?