Abhinandan Mishra, Sunday Guardian: August 18, 2018 ‘Selecting a new DRDO chief has become like walking on a landmine’. The post of the chief of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) has been vacant for nearly three months now, courtesy the apparent pressure tactics being employed by various quarters—both from inside the government and […]
Prime Minister’s Office Marked Rao’s Mail as `Grievance’
Mar 13 2015 : The Economic Times (Delhi) Lands in hot water with DAE bosses for writing to PM He wrote to the prime minister, tried to do good for a critical national project, and now he’s in trouble. One of India’s senior nuclear scientists, Pashupati Rao, who works at Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), run […]
Incurring the DRDO’s rath
It should disturb us all gravely that a motorised battery-powered chariot is the level of “technology” the DRDO feels proud to pass on. 25-11-2014 SHIV AROOR @shivaroor I love this story. Everything about it numbs the brain. What I love best about it is that nobody could have made this up: An Indian military laboratory […]
Why do people want to go private organizations? Is it because they do good work and they are rewarded? Do you have any method of incentives for good work done by scientists? Please elaborate – (CC R&D HR)
As per the reply in Parliament ( LOK SABHA) against UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 596, ANSWERED ON 09.12.2013, the total 487 scientists left from DRDO from 2008 to 30th November 2013. Scientist B- 289, Scientist C- 152, Scientist D – 26, Scientist E- 13, Scientist F – 7. Why they left – Financial reasons – very […]
No extensions sans ACC okay: Government to DRDO
By Aman Sharma, ET Bureau | 27 Sep, 2014, NEW DELHI: In a message to the Defence Research Development Organisation that has over a dozen scientists working on tenures beyond 60, the government has frowned at the tendency of giving extensions to scientists without consulting the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC). Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
RTI- Cabinet Secretariat – Shri Avinash Chander’s Contractual Appointment
To 1st August 2014 Shri Rajesh Nagpal, Under Secretary & CPIO, Cabinet Secretariat, Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi-110 004 Hello, Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 in respect of Para (2) of appointment letter No. I2/9/2013-EO (SM.I) dated 31st May 2013 regarding appointment […]
Bangalore: DRDO bleeds as scientists desert organisation in droves
Monday, 24 February 2014 – 7:32pm IST | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA DNA Correspondent Young scientists are leaving India’s premier defence research agency in large numbers. Defence Research Development Organisation (Drdo), responsible for developing indigenous defence systems, has not been able to retain its young scientists over the last seven years or so. Close […]
डिफेंस रिसर्च डेवलपमेंट ऑर्गेनाइजेशन (डीआरडीओ) से छिन सकता है नियुक्ति का अधिकार
वैज्ञानिकों की नियुक्तियों में धांधली की शिकायतों के मद्देनजर रक्षा मंत्रालय कर रहा विचार देहरादून: डिफेंस रिसर्च डेवलपमेंट ऑर्गेनाइजेशन (डीआरडीओ) से वैज्ञानिकों की नियुक्ति का अधिकार छिन सकता। पिछले कुछ समय में ऑर्गेनाइजेशन के रिक्रूटमेंट एसेसमेंट सेंटर की नियुक्तियों पर खड़े हुए सवाल को देखते हुए रक्षा मंत्रालय इस दिशा में तेजी से प्रयासरत है। बहुत संभव है […]
