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CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION                                                                    Room No. 308, B-Wing, August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066

Information Asked Regarding How many technical papers were published by DRDO Scientists in International Journals like Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Transactions, Proceedings IEEE, Transactions IEE, Electronics Letter, SPICE etc. from 1990 to March 2010.

Why I asked this Information – Almost 400 Corers of rupees are distributing through these boards and different DRDO projects to IIT’s, Universities’ and Colleges and even some NGO’s, in the name of  expanding and deepening the knowledge-base, Enhancing core competence in the field of knowledge, To encourage and provide funds for basic research in pertinent scientific disciplines etc.

The most of funds distributed till date to maximum private universities and private institutions and especially in last ten years out of total grants has gone to southern states. DRDO in its charter of duty has specifically mentioned Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to North East the equal opportunity will given to universities/institutions.

The DRDO is giving funding for various R&T projects with IIT’s, IIsc’s and various premier scientific institutions. In return DRDO sends annually many officers for higher studies particulars to IIT’s and national Universities.

The number of international papers can justify the real out of projects working with IIT, IIsc and other various institutions.

I am surprised that DRDO is deny for giving information related to paper publish in international journals, where is schedule-ii exemption is comes in between.

Information sought is already publish in journals, so why DRDO afraid to give information. It shows that DRDO is not respect for RTI Act 2005.

International publications are basically the most valuable achievement of any scientific institute /organization and it always proudly mentioned by each and every institute /organization.

So deny of such information is not understand by RTI requester.

The reason of denial is following

Under the chairmanship of DRDO’s Appellate Authority, so called expert of DRDO Hqrs, DRDL, Hyderabad and DEAL, Dehradun met on 16th July 2010 at First Appellate Authority’s Office and decided not to give single information to RTI requester but only to reply to obstruct the giving of correct information to RTI requester they wasted lot of public money on TA/DA for said government officials who attended the said meeting from Hyderabad and Dehradun.

Camouflage of exemption under schedule –II of RTI Act 2005 has been deliberately taken to circumvent to deny the required information

The DRDO Appellate Authority Dr. Prahlada, CC R&D (Ae & SI) & DS have not given his residence address and contact details in any documents or website or any other public domain. It is therefore considered that he is staying in DRDO Bhawan itself.  The CPIO and FAA of DRDO Hqrs both are on their posting at DRDO Hqrs,   staying in DRDO Guest House and drawing HRA.

APPELLANT – Shri Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
PUBLIC AUTHORITY – DRDO.
DATE OF HEARING – 29.06.2011
DATE OF DECISION – 29.06.2011

Facts:-

Heard today dated 29.06.2011.   The appellant is present.  DRDO is represented by Dr. A.K. Tyagi, Scientist ‘F’ and Dr. Deepak Mishra, Scientist ‘E’.  These appeals are being disposed of through a common order.  The parties are heard.  The order passed in each case is as follows:

The RTI Request –

To                                                                                                                       Date 9th June 2010
The CPIO & Addl Director, DRDO HQ                                         No RTI/DRDO/INPB/9/6/2010
Room No. 314A
DRDO Bhawan , Rajaji Marg
New Delhi – 110 105

Hello,

Kindly provide me with the following information requested under purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

  1.  How many technical paper were published by DRDO Scientists in International Journals like Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Transactions, Proceedings IEEE, Transactions IEE, Electronics Letter, SPICE etc. from 1990 to March 2010?
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            2.  How many authors were awarded by DRDO for their contribution and keeping                       the flag of DRDO high?
             3.  How many such authors were assigned the administrative task to lead the                                DRDO Labs as Director and then CC R&D?

             4.  How many such authors were left the DRDO during April 1990 to March 2010                       period?
 Note: – above required information is directly related to corruption and not come under schedule – II

Find the application fee for the request attached with this application. If you feel that above requested information does not pertain to your department then please follow the provisions of Section 6(3) of the RTI act 2005. Also as per the provision of the RTI Act 2005 please provide the details (Name and Designation) of the first appellate authority w.r.t. to your department with the reply to above request, where I may require file first appeal.

I do hereby declare that I am the citizen of India. Kindly provide me with the information at the address mentioned with the application. I request you to ensure that the information is provided before expiry of 30 day period after you have received the application.

Enclosed – Rs 10 Postal Order No 60E 128289

Regards

Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur, Dehradun-248008 Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,  
e-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com Blog – http://corruptionindrdo.blogspot.com

 The RTI request was denied by CPIO, DRDO Hqrs on 2nd June 2010

The Appellate Authority, DRDO Hqrs was denied on 16th August 2010

 File No.CIC/LS/A/2011/000385:-

The CPIO is directed to provide the number of papers published by the scientists of DRDO during last five years in the following publications:-

         (i) Journal of Applied Physics; and

          (ii) Electronics Letter.


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CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION                                                                      Room No. 308, B-Wing, August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066

 Information Asked Regarding – Dr. Prahlada, CC R&D (Ae & SI) & DS and Other top DRDO officials are misusing the guest house facility and also drawing HRA , attract the serious disciplinary action against the official, DRDO following blind law, different rules for different persons.

Why I asked this Information – The DRDO Appellate Authority Dr. Prahlada, CC R&D (Ae & SI) & DS have not given his residence address and contact details in any documents or website or any other public domain. I think he is staying in DRDO Bhawan itself.  The CPIO and FAA of DRDO Hqrs both are on their posting at DRDO Hqrs,   staying in DRDO Guest House and drawing the HRA. So how can Indian citizen expect any right information from these corrupt officials?

There more 9-10 CC R&D and Directors who are belongs to Hyderabad and Bangalore and their families are staying Hyderabad and Bangalore respectively and they all are staying in DRDO guest houses they are giving their residence address in telephone directory at DRDO guest houses and enjoying HRA also. They are frequent fliers, they all are already break the Milkha Singh ‘s (Flying Sikh of India)  records and relishing without fear with TD with poor tax payers money.

Following DRDO senior official are staying in guest house since their positing to DRDO Hqrs and drawing the 30% HRA .  it is big money and two major points i.e. one -these guest house not meant for permanent residence  and second when the official come from various station to attend the meeting  these guest house are not available for them and they have to spent precious poor tax payers money in luxury hotels.

There are more than 15 room is permanently occupied by DRDO senior officials in C-7, DRDO Guest House, Qutab Enclave, &6 official also unauthorized  /occupied the  DRDO Guest Development Enclave Rao, Tularam Marg, because as per sanction both places are as DRDO guest house facility in Govt .of India’s records. This is the purely dadagiri of DRDO.

Following DRDO senior official are staying in guest house as DRDO telephone Directory

And some of official are drawing HRA as per CDA records it can be verified I have recived some information from PCDA in this regard.

Under the chairmanship of DRDO’s Appellate Authority, so called expert of DRDO Hqrs, DRDL, Hyderabad and DEAL, Dehradun met on 16th July 2010 at First Appellate Authority’s Office and decided not to give single information to RTI requester but only to reply to obstruct the giving of correct information to RTI requester they wasted lot of public money on TA/DA for said government officials who attended the said meeting from Hyderabad and Dehradun.

Camouflage of exemption under schedule –II of RTI Act 2005 has been deliberately taken to circumvent to deny the required information

The DRDO Appellate Authority Dr. Prahlada, CC R&D (Ae & SI) & DS has not given his residence address and contact details in any documents or website or any other public domain. It is therefore considered that he is staying in DRDO Bhawan itself.  The CPIO and FAA of DRDO Hqrs both are on their posting at DRDO Hqrs,   staying in DRDO Guest House and drawing HRA.

APPELLANT – Shri Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal                                                        PUBLIC AUTHORITY – DRDO.

DATE OF HEARING – 29.06.2011                                                                                         DATE OF DECISION – 29.06.2011

Facts:-

Heard today dated 29.06.2011.   The appellant is present.  DRDO is represented by Dr. A.K. Tyagi, Scientist ‘F’ and Dr. Deepak Mishra, Scientist ‘E’.  These appeals are being disposed of through a common order.  The parties are heard.  The order passed in each case is as follows:

The RTI Request –

To                                                                                                                     Date 12th June 2010   The CPIO & Addl Director, DRDO HQ                                No RTI/DRDO/GHD/12/6/2010   Room No. 314A DRDO Bhawan , Rajaji Marg                                                                         New Delhi – 110 105

Hello,

Kindly provide me with the following information requested under purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

  1. Total number of transit accommodation available in DRDO’s guest houses at DELHI.
  2. How many DRDO officials are availing  DRDO transit guest house facilities at Delhi for more than 30 days while they are posted in same station i.e. Delhi from 1st  Jan 2007 to 31st May 2010
  3. Total number of days Sh. S.Ravi, Additional Director, DRDO Hqrs has been availing the DRDO guest house facilities since his posting to DRDO Hqrs till date.
  4. Total number of days Dr. Prahalda , CCR&D,(Ae &SI),DS, DRDO HQRs   has been  availing the DRDO guest house facilities since his posting to DRDO Hqrs  till date.
  5. Please intimate me date time for inspection of guest house records under Right to Information Act 2005 section 2 (j) (i) & (ii)

Note: – above required information is directly related to corruption and not come under schedule – II

Find the application fee for the request attached with this application. If you feel that above requested information does not pertain to your department then please follow the provisions of Section 6(3) of the RTI act 2005. Also as per the provision of the RTI Act 2005 please provide the details (Name and Designation) of the first appellate authority w.r.t. to your department with the reply to above request, where I may required file first appeal.

I do hereby declare that I am the citizen of India. Kindly provide me with the information at the address mentioned with the application. I request you to ensure that the information is provided before expiry of 30 day period after you have received the application.

Enclosed – Rs 10 Postal Order No 60E 128575

Regards
Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur
Dehradun-248008
Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
e-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com Blog – http://corruptionindrdo.blogspot.com

 The RTI request was denied by CPIO, DRDO Hqrs on 2nd June 2010

The Appellate Authority, DRDO Hqrs was denied on 16th August 2010

 File No.CIC/LS/A/2011/000412:-

 The appellant has sought information on 05 paras regarding the availability of accommodation in DRDO Guest House at Delhi and availment thereof by the scientists of DRDO. The requested information squarely falls in public domain.

Hence, the CPIO is directed to disclose parawise information for 2009 & 2010.

 

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                                                             CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION
 Room No. 308, B-Wing, August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066

Information Asked Regarding DRDO’s policy for encouraging employees for higher studies

Why I asked this Information – DRDO sends annually many officers for higher studies particulars to IIT’s and national Universities. The admission which granted normally after tough competitions are available to DRDO’s sponsored candidates was easily.

Aim of such higher studies is to use the academic platform to solve the complicate technical issues. DRDO in turn give the IIT’s or Universities sufficient grants against project and R&T schemes.

No one gets benefited neither the institutions nor the DRDO, it is because the most of the individuals after getting higher education working as admin, allied works, and  the reaction of this most of them leave the organization. For example DR.DP Singh, Estate Manager, Scientist ‘F’ did his post graduation and PhDs from DRDO sponsoring and performing duty of admin purely non scientific assignment. Sh A.K Musla, Sc ‘F, holding post Joint Director Admin in IRDE, Dehradun, he also did his B.Tech and M.Tech from DRDO sponsored funds and working as purely in admin. I am quoting only two names as tip of the iceberg, because in DRDO you will find 100 of such cases. DRDO is shear wasting the corers and corers rupees public funds in the name of higher education programs. Although, the aim and object of the higher education program is really good, but in hands of bad corrupt officials, the output is wasting by DRDO.

According to the ministry, a total of 1,107 scientists, mostly young entrants, have resigned from the DRDO between 2003 and 2007, implying that on an average one person leaves every two days.

APPELLANT – Shri Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
PUBLIC AUTHORITY – DRDO.
DATE OF HEARING – 29.06.2011
DATE OF DECISION – 29.06.2011

Facts:-

Heard today dated 29.06.2011.   The appellant is present.  DRDO is represented by Dr. A.K. Tyagi, Scientist ‘F’ and Dr. Deepak Mishra, Scientist ‘E’.  These appeals are being disposed of through a common order.  The parties are heard.  The order passed in each case is as follows:

The RTI Request –

To                                                                                                               Date 2nd June 2010       The CPIO & Addl Director, DRDO HQ                            No RTI/DRDO/HEd/2/6/2010     Room No. 314A DRDO Bhawan, Rajaji Marg                                                                           New Delhi – 110 105

Hello,

Kindly provide me the following information requested under the purview of Right to Information Act. 2005.

  1. Total amount invested on long term post graduation training program and PhD program under R & T scheme, and under Post Graduate Training (PGT) scheme of DRDO during period for April 1990 – March 2010 under following heads
                 i)        Adhoc advances
                ii)       Study leave salary
                iii)      Reimbursement of expenditure on account of stationary items, preparation of thesis, purchase of books and journals etc.
                iv)     Non refundable fee
                   v)      TA
                 vi)     DA
                 vii)    Financial incentive on acquiring higher qualification at their own

         2.    Total number of official Grade wise/Post wise/ Categories wise received                                  MS/ME/MTech, PhD degree during period April 1990 – March 2010

                          i)      Full time
                          ii)     Part Time
                         iii)    External Registration
           3.   The Institution from where degree of MTech/ PhD was awarded from April 1990                   – March 2010

          4.    Total amount invested on short term training/ workshops/seminars/courses in                     India (Including DIAT/ITM/IIM’s/ IIT’s, NIT’s, ESCI, ASCI, IISc’s etc.) and                       abroad, during period from April 1990 – March 2010

                         i)      Training/ Courses/Delegations Fee/Registration Fee
                        ii)     TA
                        iii)    DA
  1. Total number of Scientist resigned from April 1990 – March 2010
  1. Total number of scientist joined DRDO from April 1990 – March 2010

Note: – Above required information is directly related to corruption and not come under schedule – II

Find the application fee for the request attached with this application. If you feel that above requested information does not pertain to your department then please follow the provisions of Section 6(3) of the RTI act 2005. Also as per the provision of the RTI Act 2005 please provide the details (Name and Designation) of the first appellate authority w.r.t. to your department with the reply to above request, where I may required file first appeal.

I do hereby declare that I am the citizen of India. Kindly provide me with the information at the address mentioned with the application. I request you to ensure that the information is provided before expiry of 30 day period after you have received the application.

Enclosed – Rs 10 Postal Order No 60E 034929

Regards
Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
21-Sunderwala, Raipur
Dehradun-248008
Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879,
e-mail id prabhu@dandriyal.com Blog – http://corruptionindrdo.blogspot.com

The RTI request was denied by CPIO, DRDO Hqrs on 2nd June 2010

The Appellate Authority, DRDO Hqrs was denied on 16th August 2010

File No.CIC/LS/A/2011/000381:- CIC Decision 

The amounts spent on Long Term Post Graduation Training Programme and Ph.D Programme under RT Scheme for last three years, viz. 2008, 2009 & 2010 may be supplied to the appellant

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CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION
Room No. 308, B-Wing, August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066

Information Asked Regarding DRDO annual in Which DRDO distributing Rs 2 Corers

Annually and for managing ceremony DRDO spending a huge amount.

Why I asked this Information – The awards given by Government of India like Padma Award, Shanti Swaroop Bhatnager Award etc all these awards are given with an aim to encourage/motivate/ recognize the contribution of individual recipients and therefore it carries a citation.

DRDO constituted its awards like Scientist of the year, Young Scientist awards, Technology Leadership Award etc. with the aim to inculcate a culture of hard work, dedication, scientific achievements, and technology breakthrough leading to the technology development for national security.

But the award given in DRDO, the mode of selection, the encouragement to the scientific team does not rely on the standards.

Different rules for different occasion or different rules for different officer, the motto of DRDO or the definition of DRDO is suitably implemented..

The public would like to know the manner DRDO spending nearly 2 crores of rupees annually to   these awards, the recipients does not know that he has been chosen for this award, there is no scientific presentation of technology. The recipients, are even unable to operate any scientific instruments  like network analyzer, spectrum analyzer etc because most of awardees scientist or technical personals are working as Director Management Services, Head Material Managements, Security Officer, Library In-charge, Works  In-charge and other suitable position from where they can feed their Akas(Boss).

If any one look in to the list of award recipients and analyses year wise, he will be find the most of citation actually not even justify the work or relation between award and awardees.

There is N number of examples available in various labs where most of awards were not justified; it is purely depending upon the Director’s choice. So nut shell DRDO awards are like ”Andha banten revari apne apne ko de” it is nothing doing with their contribution whether the awardees is related to technology or not. How come a person sitting in security, MT will entitled to get technology award, when DRDO having other awards for non technical working area.

It is really big question in front of country people?

Like in Kargil, one officer got gallantry award and later it was found that the fake encounter was staged for award. (Famous ketchup Colonel Case) 

Same tactics is adopted by DRDO they are distributing awards to their own boys with fake technology propaganda.

Since money belongs to poor tax payers, when Padama award citation are available to citizen of India then how can DRDO deny  give details in the name of schedule –II exemption.

One award Defence Technology Absorption Award is using by DRDO for giving color to their pet firms. Anyone can judge from the recipients list that these firms are really worth does these firms have any significant signature in field of respective industry like M/s Resins & Allied Products, Vijayawada. received this award from Honorable Prime Minister Sh Man Mohan Singh is   related to Dr. A. Subhananda Rao, CC R&D, Director, HEMRL) 

APPELLANT – Shri Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal
PUBLIC AUTHORITY – DRDO.
DATE OF HEARING – 29.06.2011
DATE OF DECISION – 29.06.2011

Facts:-

Heard today dated 29.06.2011.   The appellant is present.  DRDO is represented by Dr. A.K. Tyagi, Scientist ‘F’ and Dr. Deepak Mishra, Scientist ‘E’.  These appeals are being disposed of through a common order.  The parties are heard.  The order passed in each case is as follows:

The RTI Request –

To                                                                                                                  Date 30th May 2010    The CPIO & Addl Director, DRDO HQ                                                                                   Room No. 314A                                                                                                                         DRDO Bhawan , Rajaji Marg, New Delhi – 110 105

Hello,

Kindly provide me with the following information requested under purview of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

The DRDO Awards Scheme, in its present form, was introduced in the year 1999 to motivate DRDO scientists, engineers and partners in industries and academic institutions in contributing for the cause of national security and self-reliance. The present Award Scheme, instituted by the Government of India, are therefore, meant to encourage DRDO scientists and our partners in the Private Sector Undertakings (PSUs), the private firms as well as the academic institutions in performing even better towards accelerating the pace of development of critical technologies, transfer of technologies from laboratories to industries as well as productionisation of the state-of-the-art defence systems.

The Scheme consists of a total of 17 awards, out of which, 4 awards are given by the Directors of the concerned laboratories/establishments in recognition of outstanding contributions of their scientists and other supporting staff consisting of technical, administrative and allied cadres. The remaining 13 awards are decided at the DRDO HQrs for which nominations are called every year from all laboratories/establishments. The nominations are initially short listed by the Screening Committee under the chairmanship of the Chairman, Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC). The short listed nominations are, thereafter, examined by the Apex Committee for finalisation of the awards which also consists of two outside experts. These awards are normally given away by the Prime Minister of India on the “Technology Day” which falls on 11th May of every year.

In this connection it is requested to provide the following detail information

  1. Total amount of investment made on DRDO awards  year wise from 1st April 1999 to till date 2010
                     i)        Total amount invested in arranging Award ceremony
                   ii)       TA/DA  on recipient of the awardees and spouse
                  iii)      All categories of all cash award by all Laboratories/Establishments and DRDO Hqrs.                                  during period of April 1999 to till date. In following format

Year 1999-2000

 Note: above required information is directly related to corruption and not come under schedule-II

Find the application fee for the request attached with this application. If you feel that above requested information does not pertain to your department then please follow the provisions of Section 6(3) of the RTI Act, 2005/Also as per the provisions of the RTI Act, 2005 please provide the details (Name and Designation) of the first appellate authority w.r.t to your department with the reply to the above request., where I may if required file my first appeal.
I do hereby declare that I am a citizen of India. Kindly provide me with the information at the address mentioned with the application. I request you to ensure that the information is provided before the expiry of the 30 day period after you have received the application.

Enclosed- Rs 10 Postal order 60E034921

Regards,

Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal                                                                                                                21-Sunderwala, Raipur Dehradun-248008                                                                          Phone – 2787750, Mobile- 9411114879, E-mail id- prabhu@dandriyal.com

The RTI request was denied by CPIO, DRDO Hqrs on 2nd June 2010

The Appellate Authority, DRDO Hqrs was denied on 16th August 2010

File No.CIC/LS/A/2011/000384:- CIC Decision

The total amount spent for last three years viz. 2008, 2009 & 2010 on the following Awards may be supplied to the appellant :-

(i) AGNI Award for excellence in Self Reliance;

(ii) DRDO Award for Performance Excellence, and

(iii) Scientist of the Year Award.

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Dear friends,
 With the support of the true Indians we can save our premier defense organisation (DRDO) from the corrupt officials. I am appealing all my friends from DRDO to please support this blog and give your valuable inputs. It is required that we clean the problems of DRDO like nepotism and corruption. They are the root cause of DRDO’s failure in all fields. Friends, I have tons of evidences related to corruption, misinterpretation of rules and misappropriation of funds in DRDO.  I am fighting against corruption in DRDO, since 2000. I have submitted a series of evidences to all government agencies, but till date neither DRDO nor any government agency claimed that they are wrong. Now the RTI acts as the right tool to clean up corruption. With your blessing, I will post all evidences, letters and correspondences with all concern departments. The information from replies to the RTI’s I filed will be available for all the citizen of India. They can analyze the level of corruption in DRDO with the façade of secrecy.     

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