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Compliant against the deliberate misconduct of Dr. A K Maini voluntarily retired scientist ‘H’ & Director of LASTEC, Delhi, DRDO, MOD.

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

Subject:  Compliant against the deliberate misconduct of Dr. A K Maini                            voluntarily     retired scientist ‘H’ & Director of LASTEC, Delhi,                          DRDO, MOD.

Sir,

Please find following informations of deliberate misconducts committed by Dr. A K Maini voluntarily retired scientist ‘H’ & Director of LASTEC, Delhi, DRDO, MOD.

  1. A K Maini had been submitting false “Nil” immovable returns in his entire service of 36 years rendered in DRDO as Group ‘A’ Gazette officer with effect from 1978 to 09-06-2014.
  2. Didn’t submit his permanent home town declaration during his entire service still he illegally availed Home town LTCs to Jammu many times.
  3. Made entry in his own handwriting on 02-12-1999 on the 2nd page of the 2nd volume of his service book about his permanent home town after 21 years from the date of his initial joining in DRDO in 1978.
  4. Deliberately made another entry about his Permanent Home Town after some years during his tenure of Directorship of LASTEC, Delhi (changing his earlier entered Pmt. Home Town) on the same 2nd page of the 2nd  volume of his service Book, without formal submission of a request for change of his Permanent Home Town, with a clear motive to create confusion in his initial entry made on 02-12-1999.
  5. Changed his name from Anil Kumar to Anil Kumar Maini in official records without submitting any formal request in this regard & without undergoing the prescribed procedure in vogue.
  6. Even gave Laboratory Awards to those Scientists of LASTEC, Delhi in 2011 who were members of the Award Selection Committee of LASTEC, Delhi
  7. Even nominated ineligible officer of LASTEC, Delhi i.e. Smt. Sangeeta Talwar, Accounts Officer of LASTEC Delhi to represent LASTEC Delhi in the interview board of the CEPTEM, Delhi for the interviews of the candidates of admin and allied cadre who passed written examination of CEPTEM 06 since minimum level of nomination was SAO-II of DRDO. Proposal of eligible SAO-II of LASTEC Delhi was formally moved but Dr. A K Maini not only did not approve it but he pressurized his sub-ordinate officers to initiate new proposal so that he could nominate the ineligible favorite officer thereby snatching a rightful opportunity of the rightful claimant.
  8. Deliberately did not make routine transfers of the officials and officers of LASTEC Delhi during his tenure of directorship of LASTEC Delhi who was holding sensitive posting/appointments thereby directly violated the standing policy of the DOP&T and CVC. He even did not comply the express orders of the DRDO HQ issued from time to time in this regard thereby created opportunities for corruption and nepotism.
  9. Even made undue favor to the Amity University, Noida, UP, for his personal gain in the form of obtaining PhD from same University, which includes inviting the students of Amity university & its Chairman Dr. Ashok Chauhan as Chief Guest in the annual raising day of LASTEC Delhi in 2010 & giving them lunch and other hospitalities from the funds of the state exchequer besides breaching the security of METCALFE House Complex of Civil Lines Delhi.
  10. Even availed leave for repair of his House in Delhi still he submitted false Nil immovable property return for the same calendar year.
  11. Never formally intimated administration division of LASTEC Delhi about his local tours during the entire period of his directorship of LASTEC Delhi thereby showed himself present on duty even on those dates when he remained at his home for personal work/reasons etc. he thereby blocked the opportunity of the DDO of LASTEC Delhi to make his salary only for those days when he was either on duty or on sanctioned leave. This is evident also from the number of the days leave availed by him in immediate 03 preceding years before his elevation to the post of Director LASDTEC Delhi and the leave taken by him during the tenure of his Directorship of LASTEC Delhi.
  12. Castigated the legitimate powers of the senior most officer of admin cadre of DRDO posted in LASTEC Delhi by depriving him from opening the official DAK received from outside by instructing verbally the officer in-charge of Diary & dispatch section of LASTEC Delhi to send the official DAK received from outside to his personal assistant thereby creating an opportunity for himself to not to bring some official DAK in the records of LASTEC Delhi. this illegal practice is still being continued in LASTEC Delhi in addition to many other laboratories of DRDO to serve the vested interest of the directors of the LABs of DRDO.
  13. Even tacitly got issued repeat supply orders many times in succession at very short intervals for purchase of stores in LASTEC Delhi through his sub-ordinate officers by splitting the supply order to avoid sanction of the higher authorities of DRDO HQ during his entire tenure of Director of LASTEC Delhi.
  14. Even tacitly got issued supply orders in favor of those firms who were either in collusion with other suppliers/firms or which were fake firms.
  15. Even deliberately delayed in according his approvals to the projects Dr M N Ready Scientist ‘G’ of LASTEC Delhi which attracted audit objections which are still pending.
  16. Gave outstanding comments in the APRS of Shri Ghai, the then scientist ‘F’ & present scientist ‘G’ of LASTEC Delhi on extraneous considerations/ grounds simply because Shri Ghai mentioned the research done by him & by other scientist of LASTEC as joint research of him & of Son of Shri A K Maini. The outstanding comments given by Dr. A K Maini in the APAR of Shri Ghai on the above mentioned extraneous grounds begged promotion to the post of Scientist ‘G’ to Shri Ghai & other deserving scientist ‘F’ of LASTEC felt let down.
  17. A K Maini was instrumental to select Shri Amit Kumar Chawla office Assistant to the post of STA-B in LASTEC through LDCE by putting illegal pressure on the concerned selection committee constituted in LASTEC in 2011 although the diploma in Engg. Discipline awarded by Janaradan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Udaipur (deemed to be university) & obtained through distance education mode from the off campus study center of Delhi is not valid Diploma to make him eligible to the post of STA-B in DRDO through LDCE exam.
  18. A K Maini even approved illegal permission to Shri Amit Kumar Chawla to attend classes for study of LLB up 09:00 AM even on working days in an education institution which is not less than 15 kms away from the office campus of LASTEC delhi disregarding the fact that the working hours of LASTEC are 09:00 AM to 05:30 PM. This favor was extended to Shri Amit Chawla just because he was working in the secretariat of Dr. A K Maini.
    1. The above mentioned deliberate misconducts of Dr. A K Maini were not only deliberately overlooked by the vigilance officer of LASTEC Delhi but also by the director of vigilance and security of DRDO HQ New Delhi which paved the way for acceptance of his voluntary retirement from service but also it made him immune from any vigilance/disciplinary inquiry against his deliberate misconducts and illegal acts.

I therefore request you to kindly ensure conducting of discreet inquiry on each and every issue raised in this complain from a independent authority specifically dis-associating any scientist & technical officer of DRDO to bring the prima-facie guilty Dr. A K Maini to the book before he goes scot free by getting his pension & other retirement benefits since his pension case is still under scrutiny containing one of the misconduct of Dr. A K Maini mentioned above.

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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Dr. A K Maini, Director, LASTEC, DRDO finally quitting on 10th June 2014 – A RTI success story

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RTI’s revealed the corrupt practices prevailing in various DRDO Labs. In Dr. A K Maini’s case, RTI inputs from CDA revealed the audit objections on project of 20 KW Single Mode Laser development (Rs 21.23 Crores). Dr. A K Maini’s team claimed successful completion of the project and team members got promotions  and awards. Following documents revealing the true story of project of 20 KW Single Mode Laser development and before time quitting of Dr. A K Maini, Director, LASTEC, DRDO.

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DRDO senior scientists feel that DRDO Admin cadre is the biggest hurdle in their day to day manipulations

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In DRDO Directors’ Conference 2010, above mentioned view was unopposed accepted by almost all top brasses of DRDO.

Then to defy DOPT guidelines of FCS (Flexible Complementing Scheme) DRDO started to assign scientists, the admin allied and other non technical jobs as full time. Like Administration, Stores, Library, Conservancy, Works, Security, Motor Transport, etc.

As a result, now you see the chaos created by these incompetent scientists everywhere in DRDO. The number of court cases increased multifold. More than hundreds cases are running in various judiciary bodies all over the India. It can be verified by the amount spending by DRDO after 2010 onward.

Now scientists are running after these non scientific assignments because they witnessed in last several  years the promotion jumps of scientists who are engaged in sundry work.

Interestingly, senior scientists who enjoyed these non scientific assignments are also able to pitch their after retirement assignments as consultants on contracts, etc. or members/chairman post of various committees where there are no age limits boundaries.

Recently, scientists also established one more area in the recruitment of admin assistant process for the interview board CEPTAM asked for admin rep. In LASTEC, Dr. A K Maini turned down the name of Sh. Prakash Singh, Senior Administrative Officer -II the single available official for required demand. Instead he sent the name of Ms. Sangeeta Talwar, ineligible for said interview board member as Admin Rep.

Second example that for the same recruitment of admin assistant process for the interview board, Jodhpur, CEPTAM asked for admin rep from DEAL Dehradun. The Director, DEAL, Sh. R C Agarwal proposed the name of his staff officer Sh. Vipin Kaushik, Scientist ‘F’ instead of Sh. K K Mishra, Joint Director, Administration.

There are several examples recently of Sh. Ashok Gupta, Technical Officer ‘C’ INMAS, DRDO who got deputation appointment of Senior Administrative Officer -I through UPSC in SSPL then shifted to DRDO Hqrs., DRDO. This foolish act shows DRDO situation is really very pitiable. How can a technical officer who is recruited for technical job avails the arbitration being a technical person got certified by Director, INMAS and concurrence by DRDO Hqrs that he did administrative /stores assignments.

Government of India has looked in to this DRDO rules manipulation game because these manipulations are a major cause of unproductiveness of this white elephant.

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DRDO trying to manage counter the Ex-Defence Minister Sh. A K Antony’s recommendation to scrap RAC with help of ASCI

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Ex-Defence Minister Sh. A K Antony recommended reconsideration of DRDO recruitment of scientists again from UPSC channel instead of DRDO’s own Recruitment Assessment Centre (RAC). From 1984 on wards RAC independently recruited scientists as or when required by DRDO. The RAC is managed by DRDO scientists who were under control of DRDO top brasses directly.

CVO, MOD analyzed after receiving several complaints against DRDO top brasses that there were a lot of manipulations done in laid down recruitment rules by RAC & senior DRDO officials to recruit their  wards. CVO, MOD proposed CBI enquiries against 10 top DRDO scientists who were involved in such criminal conspiracy. CVO, MOD also suggested that RAC be scrapped and scientists’ recruitment should be done through UPSC again. For this it was suggested that a study is conducted that would evaluate the RAC functionality by XLRI, ASCI Hyderabad, etc.

As DRDO has several experts bluff masters who have already proven their expertise by fooling the nation in different important projects, few are delayed by several years and few are closed unceremoniously.

So again they came forward to counter CVO, MOD suggestion and gave HR audit to Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad. ASCI introduced just one program in DRDO in 2006-07. Today, in 2014, ASCI is running several programs in the name of risk management, basic project management and a lot of other gimmicks in ITM-Mussoorie, DIPAS-Delhi, DRDL, ANURAG and so on. It is essentially a give and take game with no scope for improvement or benefits of DRDO or the officials. This can be seen from HR Audit of DRDO: A Pilot Study, a feedback format by ASCI, Hyderabad enclosed for your ready reference.

Interestingly the format is very good but the process of feedback is very bad.

The ASCI approaches each lab/establishment of DRDO with the feedback format.  I don’t know whether ASCI knows about the absolute power of DRDO directors or not. Example of LASTEC, when ASCI approached Director, LASTEC, Dr. A K Maini and asked for 20 volunteer names of DRDS, DRTC and Admin allied, he gave names of 20 chamchas (yes-men) in all categories. Can you imagine that ASCI will get the real picture of DRDO work scenario by using such methodology of assessment? It is impossible.  These things repeat everywhere and this futile exercise is for countering CVO, MOD suggestion only.

The major check points for ASCI

Section 2 Point No. 1. (c) Working for nation attitude – Totally missing very few young scientists having such thinking.

(f) Professional freedom – Nil and this is the main reason of the exodus of nearly 700 in the last three years. You can verify this from continuous questions in the parliament on this issue.

(i) Rewards and recognition – Only reserved for chamachas. Please see the last ten years award list (in case of LASTEC local annual awards when Chairman award committee was Dr. R K Tyagi he gave award to himself and when Chairman award committee was Mrs. Neelam Malhan she gave the award to herself. It is not a joke; it is the great award culture of DRDO, which is followed in all awards of DRDO.

(t)Opportunity of Promotion – Only reserved for chamachas. Almost 90% results of every assessment were known by labs officials before assessment. In DRDO, officials are divided in three parts, one whom the director makes sure their promotions, second part those if get clear promotion line or not cleared director doesn’t bother and third part are those for them director makes sure that in any case they have to be deprived for promotion. This is a well known truth of today’s DRDO.

(u)Training – Only reserved for chamachas. Only name of selected officials cleared by Director’s office. It is immaterial whether person selected for training is related with his assigned work or field.

Remaining points are useless.

Point No 3.

(h) Workload – there are more than 50 % workforce (nearly 30000 personal) that has no work load due to outsourcing for minting money. It can be proved by analyzing their specific individual output.

(i)      Grievances redressal mechanism – Very poor it can judged by the increasing number of court cases and representations received by Scientific Adviser , ASCI will not get clear picture from an individual feedback of chamchas.

ASCI will take money and forget but the nation who is going to pay for this HR Audit; it will get a big zero.

It is requested to DRDO’s honest officials to fill the following formats and send to ASCI mail address, nirmalya@asci.org.in to show the clear picture of DRDO to ASCI.asci format asci format1 asci format2

 

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Fight Against Corruption prevailing at DMSRDE, Kanpur – Act of Desperate D G DRDO

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To                                                                                              20th May 2014
Sh Avinash Chander,
DG DRDO, DRDO Bhawan,
Rajaji  Marg, New Delhi-110105

Dear Sir,

This website has been reporting the several cases of corruption/ nepotism and anarchy against SC/ST and weaker section of the society prevailing in DRDO.

The legacy followed from early 80’s has shown that instead of to counter the corruption / nepotism the top brasses of DRDO has carved out a mechanism to disseminate the whistle blowers.

The whistle blowers of DMSRDE, Kanpur who had been helping the DRDO Hqrs to keep an eagle eye on corrupt practices of senior officials and Director of DMSRDE has been served transfer orders to Timbuktu.

DRDO Hqrs thinks the transfer order is a only weapon to solve the problem and divert attention from corruption, but those days are over now.

Sh R P Bhat, Scientist ’F’ and Sh Naveen Prakash Gupta, Scientist ’C’ both were awarded transfer order on 19th May 2014 afternoon and immediately relived on account of their fight against corruption of Dr A K Saxena, Director, DMSRDE, Kanpur.

The transfer shows that DRDO Hqrs is deaf and dumb and bunch of corrupt officials who are protecting corrupt officials of DMSRDE are not able to hear the Modi’s Hunkar against corruption. The clear mandate by 125 crores people of India for eradication of corruption and corrupts only.

In similar case Sh Prakash Singh, SAO-II, LASTEC, DRDO, Delhi, who exposed the corrupt practices of Dr A K Maini, Director, LASTEC.  Sh Prakash Singh was dismissed by service on the wrong feedback of Dr A K Maini.  Defence Minister noticed the truth and reinstated Sh Prakash Singh and ordered high level inquiry against corrupt officials. To avoid the consequences of investigation Dr Maini took the VRS and the current position of the case is on your table as CVO, MOD was not satisfied with DRDO Hqrs reply in Dr Maini’s case.

The same bunch of officials of DRDO Hqrs who suggested the termination of Sh Prakash Singh, SAO-II is instrumental in recent transfer orders of DMSRDE scientists. You very well know the then DG Dr V K Saraswat did not apply his mind in Sh Prakash Singh’s case and trusted those bunch of flatterers and result he was out unceremoniously and CBI sword is also hanging.

Sir, if at all you can prove your worthiness, please gives your reaction in turn help the organization.

With warm regards

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