Yatish Yadav Feb 27, 2020 A test audit report by the Comptroller and Auditor General examining the working of Aeronautical Development Establishment reveals that the lab is taking up projects aimlessly without any focus and priority, spending money on research which has been abandoned without completion. The projects undertaken by the ADE from 2007 to […]
‘Akash missile system can’t be trusted during war’: Degraded by govt defence agencies, loopholes in strategic weapon system threaten national security
Yatish Yadav Dec 02, 2019 18:22:43 IST Other squadrons reported frequent unserviceability of mobile surface-to-air Akash Missile system and long duration downtime, which means that the missiles are dysfunctional and may not be cocked and loaded against enemy in contingency Several government agencies, including missile manufacturer Bharat Dynamics Limited, Bharat Electronics Limited, did not tell […]
Destroy DRDO Institutions, Get Rewarded
An open letter to Mr PK ,Chattopadhyaya RDE(E) By Rajendra Kale Dear Mr Chattopadhyaya Friends broke the wonderful news that you are back in your office a day after your retirement. I thought I must personally congratulate you. Among the top management comprising officers who have gallantly delayed even the Golden Jubilee Monument Project of […]
Railways Mull Rs 6,250 Cr Replacement To Flawed Bio-Toilets–After Spending Rs 1,620 Cr
IndiaSpend Team, June 18, 2018 Mumbai: Having spent nearly Rs 1,370 crore on 136,985 railway bio-toilets–criticised for being “no better than septic tanks”–and after earmarking Rs 250 crore to install bio-toilets on remaining trains by March 2019, the railway ministry is now considering “upgraded” vacuum bio-toilets at a cost of Rs 6,250 crore. “We have […]
DRDO needs a major overhaul: House Panel
DRDO needs a major overhaul: House Panel https://www.deccanherald.com/national/drdo-needs-major-overhaul-house-panel-671487.html … @deccanherald A parliamentary panel, which examined the issue of preparedness of the country’s armed forces, defence production and requirement, has taken a dim view of the functioning of Defence Research and Development Organisation and felt it needs a “major overhaul”. DRDO is the premier institution in defence […]
Why Indian Railways Need To Buy 3,350 Truckloads Of Cow Dung For Rs 42 Cr
Srinand Jha, January 6, 2018- IndiaSpend The Indian Railways need to buy 3,350 truckloads of cow dung at Rs 42 crore in 2018 to “recharge”–add bacteria to activate degradation–leaky, malfunctioning ‘bio-toilets’ that it has fitted on 44.8% of trains and hopes to expand to […]
Indian Railways faces CAG heat on bio-toilets
The report indicated that no awareness campaign was conducted by railway zones – except Southern Railway. Shine Jacob | New Delhi Buisness Standard Last Updated at December 19, 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised Indian Railways for installation of bio-toilets on trains, citing that majority of them face operation deficiencies including choking, […]
Almost 2 lakh complaints of choking, foul smelling bio-toilets in trains: CAG
PTI|Dec 19, 2017,The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Almost two lakh complaints regarding choking, foul smelling and non-functional bio- toilets in trains were received from the public in 2016-2017, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said today. The CAG, in its report on ‘Induction of bio-toilets in passenger coaches in Indian […]
New toilets in trains no better than septic tanks: IIT-M study
By Srinand Jha The Economics Times, Nov 23, 2017 A new kind of toilet using bacteria to break down human excreta has been deployed in Indian trains over four years to 2017, at a cost of Rs 1,305 crore, but this toilet is no better than a septic tank, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) […]
Shut Down Laboratories And Overhaul The DRDO, Expert Committee Tells Defence Ministry
All non-core research activity of the DRDO must stop. Sudhi Ranjan Sen Deputy Editor (News) The Huffington Post 14/03/2017 3:40 PM IST India’s premier defence research organisation, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), needs a major overhaul, some its research laboratories closed and the organisation needs to concentrate only on development of defence platforms, a […]
