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Secret audit reveals DRDO irregularities

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Secret audit reveals DRDO irregularities

TNN Aug 14, 2012, 03.14AM IST

NEW DELHI: A confidential internal audit ordered by the defence ministry has found several financial and other irregularities in the functioning of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), which has a network of 50 labs and an annual budget of over Rs 10,500 crore.

 

This comes a day after TOI reported that none of the main recommendations — first by the Rama Rao Committee in 2008 and then a watered-down version by a committee headed by the defence secretary in 2010 — has been implemented to revamp DRDO to ensure that advanced weapon systems are developed for the armed forces without huge time and cost overruns.

The fresh internal audit, conducted by the finance wing of the defence ministry, has raised serious questions about the lack of transparency in DRDO’s functioning, including the alleged sanctioning of Rs 2.80 crore by DRDO chief V K Saraswat to a mathematical society headed by him.

 

DRDO spokesman Ravi Gupta, on being contacted, said the issues raised in the report were “essentially in the nature of preliminary observations” and the audit itself was “vitiated by a faulty process”. “None of the points raised in the audit report stands scrutiny… We are giving a point-wise rebuttal to the baseless conclusions,” he said.

 

The audit report also pointed out that DRDO was splitting sanctions for its projects to avoid seeking approvals from “competent financial authorities”.

Readers comments

Polachan Vm (Egypt)

8 days ago

….if all the black money and the corrupt money is confiscated, we can buy USA three times. ..luckily our leaders and judges are thieves..wishing all poor Indians a very happy Independance day…  9249850342 ..former thief justice..

myalmightygod (India)

9 days ago

God bless india.

Raghubir Singh (Pune)

9 days ago

Internal audit is one of the healthy procedures to have financial checks and balances in place and every government department has such auditing as a matter of routine even in ops units in forward areas. There is nothing secret about it. As a first step there are preliminary observations-majority of which get settled after the explanations are given at working level showing relevant file/documents/authority etc. We can delve on two point’s including MBT Arjun being overweight which has also found mention in the preliminary observation. Best MBT’s of the world like US’s Abram, UK’s Challenger, Germany’s Leopard & Isarel’s Merkava having crew of four all weigh in the region of 62-65 tons as compared to 58 tons that of Arjun with four crew which is great feat in weight management! MBT Arjun has withstood enough flak for decades & proven its merit in the desert trials pitted against blue eyed T-90. But eventually DRDO would have to develop newer third generation tank as China has done. Splitting the sanctions is generally to win race against time for projects which otherwise would get stuck up in red tapes -for which there should be red carpets to roll on smoothly? Splitting by remaining within limit is permissible and let us not grudge this financial authority bestowed on authorities like Directors.

spot on (Paris) 9 days ago

DRDO Chief V K Saraswat was first one to vouch for the Tetra Trucks performance and suitability when former Army gen VK Singh blew the scam in the open. Once scam thickened and stink ed too much, this guy faded in the air. CBI and media doing good work for the khangress family. My friend worked for many year for DRDO and he told me that most of the project engineers outsource work to companies formed by their own family members. Please probe middle management too to show the rot.

dasg (NY) replies to spot on 8 days ago

No wonder the morons continue to buy 70% of the weapons, unmatched by any nation with even 50 million let alone 1200 million. VK Singh remarks must have sent shiver down this crook Saraswat’s spine. But nothing will happen, whole edifice is rotten, and as a result honest people like VK Singh are cast as vilians and crooks like Saraswat are applauded.

dasg (NY) 9 days ago

Ha ha ha Mathematical Society! Good one. Corruption thy name is Indian. But then he is thinking if Sonia, Kamadi, Kanimozi, Raja, Laloo, Pawar and almost everyone why not me. ISRO Nair too made enough. The whole edifice has become rotten to the core.

Mohan (London) replies to dasg 8 days ago

I will like to share my personal experience about DRDO. I have an international reputed Masters in science from one of top European university.I studied from top 10 Indian engineering college. I am working abroad in a research lab, applied for a job @DRDO; they didn’t even select me. While most of the scientists who work in DRDO are below average, lack any capability to produce anything substantial, they wont choose NRI candidates as they believe in corruption. Dumb engineers and scientists want to maintain their status quo without delivering any result!!

bg (hyd) replies to Mohan 6 days ago

“yet another these are sour grapes story”

dasg replies to Mohan 7 days ago

Well Indian or for that matter local recruitment is based solely on your abilities, in India foremost your contacts. That is 1200million people, have not single University among top 100 let alone top ten in the world. They are now being beaten black and blue by China. You have dull people and lazy people, dull people vote along caste/parochial line people like Laloo, Maya, Mulayam, Kuruanidhi, Raja who support crooks like Sonia, Rahul. So its is dullness of mind that they adhere to divisive, highly detrimental and dangerous casteism. Lazy people are middle class who cant up their fat backside to participate in the electoral process even to the extent of casting vote.

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Open Appeal –Save DRDO: Dr Saraswat and Dr Avinash

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All of us pained by various letters and RTI proofs appearing on Internet about Corruption & Nepotism about DRDO. We are more pained that you both are keeping silent and no visible actions are being taken. The Villain (Selwamurthy) of DRDO is enjoying and he pushing his people on all fronts to destabilize and embarrass you. One fine example is Varshney who is controlling your office and passing minutely details to his Real BOSS-Selwamurthy.

The material appearing on Internet, may be some of them incorrect and exaggerated, but has created unrest in DRDO- Some are enjoying, some are pained and some, particularly younger lot, confused and feeling betrayed.

A special appeal to both, spare your 48 hours on some of the critical and burning issues and decide and give positive signal to all of us that you are impartial and truly committed towards growth of DRDO in a healthy manner. Don’t involve The Villain for this, he will only misguide you, we recognize both of you as our true guide and have confidence that you will take corrective actions which are visible across all section of DRDO. We all are waiting for ACTIONS and send us POSITIVE energy by your Impartial actions.. YOU ARE DUTY BOUND TO TAKE ACTIONS IMPARTIALLY.

Some of burning issues and suggestions are

  1. NO MORE EXTENSIONS, except very deserving cases, not more than 2 to 3 per 6 month cycle. Extension is equal to death sentence, which is given on rarest of rare cases by our courts. Extension should be also based on principle of rarest of rare cases. If extension given to CV&E, LS, CEPTAM, it will be major joke on DRDO.
  2. Review all extension cases already given, Act as Supreme court and commute certain cases of death sentence. Retire some of tainted and wrongly extension cases like of Selwamurthy, Mohan Rao, Arun Kumar, Jain, Agarwal RC, Narendra Kumar, and similar cases.
  3. You have given charge of HR to very competent Chief Controller. But his Directors are still aligned to Pseudo-HR controller. Do complete overhauling of HR & DOP, it will correct many wrongs of Selwamurthy and his Chamchas who have destroyed basic fiber of DRDO. Let them keep making Mosquito repellent and Chapattis. Implement policy of change of DOP, RAC,DHRD, CEPTAM every 2 year and don’t just rotate them.
  4. International Cooperation Controller should be person who had collaborated with different countries in his younger and middle carrier. A yoga teacher is just unfit for this job and using this as platform for self image enhancement.
  5. Dr PS Goel should not be given Extension; the HARD fact is that he is only responsible for bringing moral of all scientists to deep sea low level.
  6. Grass root level interaction of SA with middle and younger lot in different zones, on at least quarterly based. It will bring a Sea change if all are given free environment to discuss with their family head.
  7. Accountability of Directors and Chief Controllers should be more aggressive and transparent. They should be answerable to all wrong done in their areas, including poor result in respect of deserving scientists in assessment due to non projection of their achievement in right manner.

WE ARE WAITING_PLEASE ACT FAST

By- Honest and Well-Wishers of DRDO