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DRDO sets timeline for fixing grievances to discourage direct complaint to PM Modi

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By Pradip R. Sagar 14 September 2016 The New Indian Express
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NEW DELHI: As scientists involved in defence research continue to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with their grievances, DRDO headquarters has asked all its department heads to take timely action on these complaints to avoid direct communication with PM or Defence minister.

Following series of complaints, the DRDO’s vigilance department has now fixed a deadline to complete probe into any grievance within in ten days of receipt of complaint.

Days after assuming office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked government officials to give their suggestions directly to his office. But, within months, the PMO’s desk handling grievances was flooded with hundreds of representations. To address complaints, Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha, in August 2015 issued an instruction that writing directly to the PMO by violating the prescribed channel of communication has to be viewed ‘seriously’ and is liable for ‘disciplinary action’.

But, despite strict instructions from the Cabinet Secretariat, several scientists have been continuously approaching prime minister’s office and defence minister.

“In absence of appropriate action to be taken on such complaints, the complainant addresses his grievances to various authorities including the Raksha Mantri (defence minister) and Prime Minister’s Office,” according to an stinker from the vigilance department head of the DRDO, Dr. JP Singh, Director, Vigilance and security writes..

“It has been noted with concern that neither any timely action is taken by the head of Clusters or establishment on complaints which are addressed to them, nor any action taken report is forwarded by them headquarters,”

Vigilance department believe that because of in-action by concerned Clusters or Establishments in the DRDO, ‘copious correspondence among various government agencies take place as all the complaints were processed as per extant of guidelines of the DoPT.

“All heads of Clusters/ Laboratories/ Establishments and Units are requested to take timely action on complaint directly addressed to them and forward Action Taken Report to the Chief Comptroller with ten days of the receipt of complaint,” Dr. JP Singh, Director, Vigilance and security writes.

Citing a Cabinet Secretary note on official communication channel, the DRDO headquarters in August last year, had issued detailed instructions to all its laboratories for strict compliance regarding representations being sent directly to higher authorities bypassing the prescribed channel of communication.14-sept-16-the-new-indian-express

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Defence secretary R K Mathur’s additional charge as DRDO chief extended

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An order by the DoPT said Mathur would now hold the additional charge as secretary of DRDO till May 24.
By: Express News Service | Published on:May 6, 2015 12:46 am
Buying itself more time to choose a full-time head for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the government Tuesday extended the tenure of defence secretary R K Mathur’s additional charge as DRDO head. An order by the DoPT said Mathur would now hold the additional charge as secretary of DRDO till May 24.
“The appointments committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension of additional charge of the post of secretary, Department of Defence Research and Development assigned to Shri Radha Krishna Mathur, IAS, Defence Secretary for a period up to 24.05.2015 or till the appointment of a regular incumbent or till further orders, whichever is the earliest,” the order said. Mathur has been holding the additional responsibility since January 31.

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SUBMISSION OF THE FACTS OF COLLUSIN OF THE DOP, DRDO HQRS Dr. A.K. SINGH WITH THE ILLEGALLY APPOINTED RELATIVE SCIENTIST OF THE DRDO etc.

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To                                                                                                               12th April 2015                 Hon’ble Shri Manohar Parrikar,                                                                                                     Defence Minister,Room No -104,                                                                                                   South Block,New Delhi-110011

SUBJECT:-  SUBMISSION OF THE FACTS OF COLLUSION OF THE                                         DOP, DRDO HQRS Dr. A.K. SINGH WITH THE ILLEGALLY                               APPOINTED RELATIVE SCIENTIST OF THE DRDO   etc.

Sir,

  1. DOP, Dr. A.K. Singh did not take timely action on the letters of cvc and cvo of mod on the illegal Appointments of blood relatives of senior scientist of DRDO as scientists namely SMT. T chandrabanu, Ms Swati Sriwastava, Ms Dolly Bansal & SMT. S Geetha to illegally retain them for the period as much as possible. He did not carry out his duty meticulously against illegal appointment of SMT. S Geetha to please his ex-boss Dr.W. Selvamurthy.
  2. He did not take the following actions as expected from him in the capacity of DOP to know the truth of the experience certificate, got issued from Dr.Ambedkar centre for Bio-Medical research of Delhi university (ACBR of DU) by SMT. S Geetha D/O Dr.W. Selvamurthy Ex- CC R&D, HR
  • Has not called for any explanation as yet from SMT. S. Geetha to tell the organization  about the name of the projects & names & designations of the principal investigators of the projects of the ACBR of DU in which she worked during November 1999 to January 2000 and for the same she was issued a experience certificate.
  • Has not called for any explanation as yet from SMT. S. Geetha about the date on which SMT. S. Geetha applied for the post of temporary research assistant in ACBR of DU in 1999.
  • Has not called for any explanation as yet from SMT. S. Geetha about the procedure and mode of selection to the post of temporary research assistant in ACBR of DU in 1999
  • Did not produce the original copy of the experienced issued to SMT. S Geetha by officiating Director Dr.Veena Brahamchari of ACBR of DU to the high power committee of Shri Bhujanga Rao & Shri Anup Malhotra set up on the orders of defence minister in  which DOP was himself a member.
  • Did not call for any explanation as yet from SMT. S. Geetha, SC-D of DIPAS, Delhi to know all the facts for issuance of the experience certificate to her by ACBR of DU.
  1. Has been instrumental in sending delayed & distorted replies to the CBI since 01-10-2012 (the date from which he is holding the charge of DOP) in respect of the ongoing through inquiry  against 04 illegal appointed relatives of the senior scientist of DRDO i.e. against SMT. T  Chandrabanu, Swati Sriwastava, Dolly Bansal & SMT. S Geetha.
  2. Has been instrumental in transferring DRDS Cadre Scientists by pick & choose rule without following any uniform policy.
  3. Has harassing the husband-wife scientists by not posting them at a convenient place violating the GOVT. policy.
  4. Has been adopting dilatory tactics to harass the employees of DRDO (who submit genuine grievances on service matters to DRDO HQ to obtain justice through administrative channel) by    unnecessarily seeking opinions of the nodal departments even in the matters where the rule position is expressively clear.
  5. Remains dormant in redressing the genuine grievances & acts super actively to help the dishonest employees & officers of the DRDO which shows his possession of doubtful integrity.
  6. Appointed retired officers of AFHQ Cadre, DRDS Cadre, service officers & DRDS Cadre officers as consultants during his tenure as DOP for the regular jobs for which either replacement have joined in DRDO or for the jobs for which no such appointments is permissible under concerned. He even allowed continuation of the tenure of such illegally appointed consultants.
  7. Has been implementing the special pay to the scientist ‘G’ & counting of the special pay in the fixation of Scientist ‘H’ & tapering of the variable increments of the Scientists by violating  the concerned express rules of DOP&T & ministry of Finance.
  8. Has omitted his duty as DOP with regard to misconducts of Shri A.K. Maini retired Director of LASTEC to save him from vigilance action.
  9. Dr A K Singh deliberately delayed in processing the case of misconduct prima facie against Dr A K Tyagi, Sc ‘G’ so he could get promotion to the post of Sc ‘G’ before issuance of formal charge sheet. He did not propose his suspension of Dr.A K Tyagi even when charges of corruption were forwarded by CVC for investigation to DRDO through CVO, MoD

It is requested that do needful in this with above all reference to save the DRDO.

Regards

Prabhu Dandriyal,
21-Sunderwala, Raipur,Dehradun -248008                                                                                 Phone 0135- 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,                                                                                 e-mail id prabhudoon@gmail.com  website www.corruptionindrdo.com

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DRDO chief booted out 16 months before end of tenure

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Hidustan Times – Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times New Delhi, January 13, 2015
The government on Tuesday sacked Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief Avinash Chander, putting up the exit order on the Department of Personnel and Training website even before informing him.
“I am hearing this from you. It has come as a shock to me. I haven’t received any order from the government,” Chander told HT exclusively.

The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) approved the termination of Chander’s contract with effect from January 31, a good 16 months before it was to end. Strangely, the ACC order was taken off the DoPT website later in the day.

The sacking was first reported by HT on its website.

“It is the government’s decision to end my contract but I had no indication this was coming. No idea why it has happened,” the 64-year-old added.

The reasons for Chander’s unceremonious exit could not be immediately ascertained but the DRDO had in August come in for sharp criticism from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over delays and cost overruns in key military programmes. Modi had said India had the potential to be a world leader in the defence sector but was being held back by a “chalta hai” attitude.

In another snub to him, the NDA government had last year turned down a DRDO request for grant of extension to four senior scientists who had attained the age of retirement.

Chander had retired on November 30, 2014 but was to hold charge till his contract expired on May 31, 2016. This was in line with his appointment order issued on May 31, 2013. The government had even issued an order on November 27 last year saying Chander would “continue to be in operation” for the next 18 months — making his sacking on Tuesday all the more unexpected.

As chief of India’s premier defence research agency, Chander also held the posts of scientific adviser to the defence minister and secretary, department of defence R&D. He is credited with shaping India’s strategic missile programme.

The DRDO was set up in 1958 to develop indigenous military technology and cut back on arms imports. But India holds the dubious distinction of being the world’s largest weapons importer, sourcing 70% of its defence requirements from abroad.

A search panel headed by the cabinet secretary will pick Chander’s replacement from among top DRDO scientists.

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Extensions without approval of ACC should be cancelled immediately

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To                                                                                                         10th November 2014
Honorable Sh Narendra Modi,
Prime Minister,
Room No -152, PMO,
South Block,
New Delhi -110011

 

Subject: Extension of service after age of 60 years.

Sir,

Recently DOP&T published an OM F.No.22/35/2011-EO (SM.II) 24th September, 2014 Sub: Grant of extension/re-employment to Central Government servants beyond the age of superannuation.

In Para 1 of above  – The ACC has observed that in some of the cases, the Departments are not taking timely action to reconstitute the Departmental Peer Review Committee (DPRC) and are unilaterally extending the service of the officers beyond the age of superannuation without first obtaining approval of the ACC.

In Para 4 of above –  It is also reiterated that in absence of specific approval of ACC towards extension of his services beyond the date of superannuation, an officer should stand retired on his date of superannuation and under no circumstances should the Ministry/Department concerned extend his services beyond superannuation unilaterally without the approval & ACC.

Sir, with reference to above OM it is clear that ACC has observed that in some cases officials/scientists got service extensions without first obtaining approval of the ACC, and after straight order no one is retired on his date of superannuation.

It shows that system is having still few strong manipulators who are protecting individuals and putting some weird excuses so that above order is not executed after 46 days. It is really very astonishing facts that after your strong message some of rotten minded officials are not working in the national interest.

On 31st October 2014 evening when DRDO & DAE people got message that you have not granted extensions to scientists after series of recommendations of their so called superiors, they welcomed your decision and distributed sweets and celebrated the closing of extension era.

To maintain their spirit and boosting their moral it is requested that weed out those few officials from your system who are the obstacle of our country’s development and execute the above DOP&T OM urgently.

The cases of extensions without approval of ACC should be cancelled immediately and these scientists should be superannuated with effect from the date they got extension.

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Prabhu  Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun
Ph   0135 2787750, Mobile 9411114879,
e-mail id prabhudoon@gmail.com  website   www.corruptionindrdo.com
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Narendra Modi government takes RTI to another level: All replies to be put online

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Aman Sharma, ET Bureau Oct 22, 2014, 02.20AM IST

(The Department of Personnel…)
NEW DELHI: It had been expected to dilute the UPA government’s showpiece Right to Information (RTI) Act that had become a scourge of sorts for its ministers and bureaucrats and was even blamed by some as a contributing factor for the policy paralysis during its reign. But the Narendra Modi-led BJP government has done the reverse and taken RTI to quite another level.

Starting next month, all replies given under RTI by ministries will be posted online, available for access to all and not just to persons seeking the information. This will mean unprecedented scale of disclosure and cheer transparency advocates, especially those in the NGO sector with whom this government has had a testy relationship. Until now, only the person filing the RTI application seeking replies from a ministry or a government department would get the reply and that too mostly via post.

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Tuesday issued an official memorandum to all central ministries and departments directing them to take “immediate action” to ensure that “the facility to upload the reply to RTI application and first appeal on the website of the respective ministry or department” may be started from October 31. Replies to queries will be put up on ministries’ website and be available for all to view and not just the person behind the query.

The move has won the government plaudits. Satyanand Mishra, former Chief Information Commissioner, told ET that the step takes transparency under the RTI Act to “just another level.” “It is a very good and welcome step. It will not only improve transparency but also reduce workload of government officials as it will help eliminating possibility of repeated RTI queries on the same issue,” Mishra said.

“As far as person whose RTI reply is put online, someone seeking transparency in form of a RTI plea should not have any problem is government shows the same transparency and makes the reply to him public,” he added. Incidentally, the UPA government too had tried to do a similar thing and even passed instructions to this effect in April last year, but its move could never be implemented.

A DoPT official told ET that the Modi government was now implementing what could not be done by its predecessor, noting that the RTI Act had a specific provision for suo-moto disclosure of information. “Any person can now check a website to see what information has already been asked for and provided under RTI and hence the Ministry will be relieved of answering the same queries again and again. It will also bring transparency,” a senior DoPT official said, requesting anonymity.

The DoPT note to ministries, while exhorting disclosure, also warns them to exercise caution while dealing with information that could affect privacy of individuals.

“It may be noted that RTI applications and appeals received and their responses relating to personal information of an individual may not be disclosed, if they do not serve any public interest,” the note said.

On its part, the DoPT has already added, on a pilot basis, a new feature on its website that gives an option to all Central Public Information Officers to upload replies to RTI on its site. The PMO recently led by example by disclosing the details on number of staff, PM’s staff and also the assets of all central ministers.

The UPA birthed the RTI with great pride in 2005, but found itself bruised periodically by the transparency revolution it had unleashed. Some political storms triggered by the RTI during the UPA era include letters between Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi on RTI amendments; in the telecom scam, the communication between Singh and the then-telecom minister A Raja; the exchange between the PM and the CJI on the declaration of assets by judges and letters from three sports ministers that flagged off the c o r r uption in the 2010 Commonwealth Games spending.

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RTI-DRDO-PMO

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 To                                                                      Date – 21 October 2014
Shri Syed Ekram Rizwi,
Director & Central Public Information Officer,
Prime Minister’s Office,
South Block,
New Delhi – 110011

Hello,
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005 in respect of following complaints/representations  to Hon’ble Prime Minister with details as under.

  1. DEEMED SUSPENSION OF DR. G. MALKONDIAH, DS AND CCR&D (HR), DRDO AS under the provisions of Rule 10(2)(b) of CCS(CCA) Rules 1965, dated 06 Oct 2014
  2. Shri Avinash Chander SA to RM , DG DRDO, Secretary (DRD) patronizing organized corruption in procurement by Dr. A. K. Saxena, Director, DMSRDE, DRDO, Kanpur, Dated 13 September 2014
  3. CORRUPTION IN DMSRDE (DRDO), KANPUR BY DR. ARVIND KUMAR SAXENA, DIRECTOR, dated 11 September 2014
  4. Non-Implementation of DOPT, Govt. of India, Office Memorandums regarding submission of IPR and put the same in Public Domain in Defence Research & Development Organisation, Min. of Defence, dated 28 July 2014
  5. DRDO Corruption – Modus Operandi example prevailing corruption in DRDO labs, dated 11 June 2014
  6. The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet appointed Sh. Avinash Chander on contract basis, dated 27 May 2014
  1. Provide the present status of the complaints.
  2. Action taken by PMO on the complaint.
  3. If any reply received by PMO on subject matter from respective matters from ministry of Defence or directly from DRDO please provide the copy of replies.
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Prabhu Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur
Dehradun-248008
Phone 0135- 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
e-mail id prabhudoon@gmail.com, website www.corruptionindrdo.com

Registration Number     PMOIN/R/2014/61418

 
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RTI-DOPT- DRDO Extension Buisness

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To                                                                                                               26th September 2014
Sh Subandhu Basu,
US (SM-I), CPIO,
Room no. 23, North Block,
New Delhi -110001

 

Hello,
Kindly provide me with the following information requested under the purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005 in respect of OFFICE MEMORANDUM  F.No.22/35/2011-EO (SM.II) 24th September, 2014 Sub: Grant of extension/re-employment to Central Government servants beyond the age of superannuation.  In Para 1 – The ACC has observed that in some of the cases, the Departments are not taking timely action to reconstitute the Departmental Peer Review Committee (DPRC) and are unilaterally extending the service of the officers beyond the age of superannuation without first obtaining approval of the ACC.

  1. Provide the name of officials and name of their respective departments who were get extension in service beyond superannuation for two years without first obtaining approval of the ACC from January 2011 to till date as mentioned in above OM
  2.  Provide the name of officials and name of their respective departments who were get extension in service after 62 to 64 years without first obtaining approval of the ACC from January 2011 to till date as mentioned in above OM.
  3. Provide the total number of DRDO officials granted extension for two years 60 to 62 years from January 2010 to till date.
  4.  Provide the total number of DRDO officials granted extension for two years 62 to 64 years from January 2010 to till date.

 

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Prabhu  Dandriyal,
21-Sunderwala, Raipur,
Phone 0135- 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
e-mail id prabhudoon@gmail.com  website www.corruptionindrdo.com

Registration Number     DOP&T/R/2014/63933

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Alarming Situation in DRDO for HR Management – DOPT Great stand

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To                                                                                                       12th September 2014
Shri Sanjay Kothari,
Secretary (Personnel),
Department of Personnel and Training,
North Block, New Delhi -110001

Subject:  Alarming Situation in DRDO for HR Management

Reference: DOPT letter No.14029/1/2014-Estt.(L) dated 3rd September 2014.

Dear Sir,

               With reference to above subject and in the interest of larger public interest, the case study with evidences gathered by RTI replies from DRDO was submitted to then Defence Minister which subsequently endorsed to your department by then Defence Minister.

Surprisingly, today I have received above referred letter from your under secretary Sh S G Mulchandaney, in which he attracts my attention to DOPT OM No.11013/08/2013-Estt.(A)-III. (Copy enclosed for your ready reference)

It seems that your officials sitting there dealing such serious matter/ information blindly they even not bothered that it was duly endorsed by honorable minister. Can DOPT tell me that information submitted by me is related by any means with the DOPT OM No.11013/08/2013-Estt. (A)-III dated 6th June 2013.

It is requested that please take appropriate action to theses irresponsible officials who are trying to discourage honest approach for clean governance.

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Prabhu  Dandriyal,
21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun -248008 
0135- 2787750,   9411114879,  
prabhudoon@gmail.com    www.corruptionindrdo.com

Enclosed:

  1. Letter to Sh A K Antony Subjected Alarming Situation in DRDO for HR Management dated 31st March 2014
  2. DOPT letter No.14029/1/2014-Estt.(L) dated 3rd September 2014.
Copy to-
  1. Hon’ble Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Room No -152, PMO, South Block, New Delhi-110011   
https://corruptionindrdo.com/2014/04/01/alarming-situation-in-drdo-for-hr-management/ 
 

  1. Dopt Reply on alarming HR        
 
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Sh R C Agarwal your Tea was not accepted by Uttarakhand Police, Sub Inspector B P Singh’s report misfired

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Today evening around 18:15 hrs SSP, Dehradun marked Sh Jagdish Kumar, T O ‘C’s request to CO, City, Dehradun for proper investigation for action in atrocity against Sh R K Agrawal, Principal Associated Director, Outstanding scientist, Scientist ‘H’ (although promotion got with false claim of Project NARAD), which was duly authenticated  by  another Agrawal i.e. Director, DEAL, Sh R C Agarwal who was got two service extensions as he is having international stature  as DoPT criteria for service extension beyond age of 62 years is only for those scientists or medical professional who possessed international stature in their respective field.

GOD and Sh Avinash Chander, DG DRDO only knows the international stature of Sh R C Agarwal, Director, DEAL or may be Sh Avinash Chander impressed his false authentication capability.

Procured SDR 3000 or SDR 5000 or developed prototype of DEAL SDR will be use for museum which was build  by Dr S Pillai in Brahmos campus. Like Kalam Gallery, Pillai Gallery……..SDR gallery

Now Sh R C Agarwal will make another special Tea for CO, City, Dehradun to protect his beloved Agarwal, if CO, City, Dehradun not visit DEAL campus than he has to take special Tea in thermos to CO, City office.

All the best