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High Fives! Can DRDO fulfil Modi’s wish of youngsters heading 5 laboratories?

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Written by: Dr Anantha Krishnan M Updated: Wednesday, November 5, 2014, – One India News

Bengaluru, Nov 5: Hit by the short range ‘wish missile’ fired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi two months back, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) might be waking up to the reality that the change is imminent, and it’s now or never.

While addressing a DRDO award function in August this year, PM Modi had asked the top brass to set aside five laboratories for scientists below 35 years – a message that went viral on social media sites.

In an interview to OneIndia, Dr K Tamilmani, Director-General (Aero), DRDO, said that the PM’s wish to hand over the mandate of running some labs to youngsters has become a mandate now.

“The PM’s call to promote young talent has been well received by the youngsters within DRDO. We have been doing this exercise in the past as well and it will get a new focus now. It has to be a well-thought out plan keeping in mind factors such as project execution, financial management, administrative abilities and most-importantly leadership qualities,” Dr Tamilmani said.

IIT graduate heads Rs 22-crore futuristic project

He said emerging projects and technologies are being given to scientists at ‘D’ and ‘E’ levels. “We have been promoting youngsters in DRDO. To give an example, a fast-track technology development project has been already handed over to a young IIT graduate at the Aerial Delivery Research & Development Establishment in Agra. He is leading a 22-crore project for futuristic technologies for the development of an airship,” Dr Tamilmani said.

Sighting another example, he said the DRDO is in the process of handing over the ‘Rotary UAV’ project to a young team at the Aeronautical Development Establishment in Bengaluru.

DRDO spokesperson Ravi Gupta told OneIndia that youngsters were never ignored when it came to crucial projects. “Many youngsters have been project directors of some of our key projects. In Hyderabad itself we have two relatively young scientists in Dr Satheesh Reddy and Dr Tessy Thomas heading two critical labs – the Research Centre Imarat (RCI) and the Advanced System Laboratory (ASL) respectively. With the PM’s new directive, the idea of promoting youngsters will now get a new impetus,” Ravi Gupta said.

Modi’s idea is great, execution tough

According to Pushpindar Singh, aviation historian, author and publisher, the DRDO must undergo radical changes to become a world beater in defence R&D.

“You must have a virtual revolution within the DRDO. To me, the system won’t allow youngsters to come up. Modi has some brilliant ideas. But to execute the ideas, he will have to penetrate through the babudom. If the PM wants to see young hands spearheading projects in DRDO, then he should privatise DRDO. The results will be magical. Else we will see the same story doing the rounds,” said Pushpindar, one of the prominent voices of Indian defence.

Creation of new labs the only solution

A top DRDO director who wanted not to be named said that the PM’s idea of handing over the reins of some labs to youngsters below the age group of 35 might not work.

“Honestly, the idea might sound great, but there will be a lot of practical difficulties. It’s not an easy task to give the lab charge to a Scientist D or E and then ask someone senior at Scientist H to report to a lower rank. It will create unrest among the system. Even if it has to be done, then it has to be executed without creating any heartburn,” the official said.

He said the only way out to fulfil PM’s mandate is to create 5 small labs with limited mandate to start with. “We need to identify 5 different projects to be handed over to these labs. All the five labs must report to one Director-General to avoid further hiccups. I agree that DRDO has built in too many layers within and despite the implementation of Rama Rao Committee’s recommendations, lots need to improve,” the official added.

Ready to take risk, let young guns take charge

In his speech PM Modi had said that the government was willing to take risks by giving young guns a chance to run R&D programme. His wish-list included.

Identify five laboratories within DRDO for youngsters

Only scientists below 35 years will work here

All key decisions should be taken by the people in these labs

DRDO must develop systems ahead of others

We got the potential, must work ahead of time DRDO must bring comfort in the routine lives of jawans.

DRDO scientists should inspire youth in universities.

As this piece goes live on OneIndia, there are media reports that the PMO has struck down the service extension request for four scientists, working past their retirement age. The decision by the PMO might upset the DRDO top brass, who always had their way when it came to extension of senior scientists.

“Sixty is not the right age for a scientist to retire. In abroad, the scientists work even beyond 70 years. We need to debate this issue and see how best we can retain the talent of our senior scientists,” says a retired DRDO director, who had got two extensions (2 + 2 years) after touching 60 years.

The PM has definitely set the ball rolling by inspiring the youth within DRDO. Whether the DRDO top brass can live up to his expectations is something worthy to watch!

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Campus Recruitment by PS Banks Now Unconstitutional – What About Illegality Already Committed ?

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campus selection letterby – Danendra Jain <dkjain49709@gmail.com>AllBankingSolutions.com

This refers to Mumbai High court judgement pronounced in a case related to Central Bank of India . The Bombay high court has held that its ( bank’s ) recruitment policy, which allows campus recruitment/interview method for appointment of officers against permanent vacancies on regular basis, was illegal and unconstitutional.

Bank management of almost all public sector banks has resorted to campus hiring, not only in scale I but in scale II and scale III too. During last ten years top ranked officers of almost all banks have functioned in an arbitrary manner, recruited persons of their choice, giving favours to kith and kins of high profile persons and denying the talented unemployed youth. Recruitment of persons for some personal gain or to give favour to sons and daughters of known dignitaries has damaged work culture in banks and adversely affected the asset quality of almost all banks.

Top management in public sector banks picked up persons from campus of their choice and in the name of merit they raped those who have been working in the bank for years and decades. Not only in recruitment have they harmed the future of those existing employees who were waiting for promotion to higher cadre and higher scale. There are instances where bank management recruited officer directly in scale III whereas hundreds and thousands of officers eligible for promotion to scale III are denied their rights.

Further due to their arbitrary and unjustified recruitment of officers from campus in scale III or scale II management of bank had to pay double salary or more for the same work which could be and which hitherto has been performed by junior officers and clerks.

Is there anyone who can punish such top ranked officers whose faulty action caused huge loss to the bank??

Why these responsible and top ranked officers should not be personally punished and taken to task so that in near future no one dares violating the rights of existing employees and denying the opportunity to really talented youths.

I am unable to understand why the courts have simply warned the bank to desist from campus hiring in future and why not court thought it necessary to impose penalty of erring top officials.

In response to court verdict against Central bank and its clear warning to bank not to repeat such campus hiring, Government of India should order CBI inquiry into all recruitment which took place during last ten years in public sector banks through campus hiring and whether those officers are really better than already working officers in banks and whether there was any corrupt dealing in such type of recruitment.

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SATYAMEV JAYATE -III – 30714/2013/ Vigilance 9 complaint has been sent to CVO MINISTRY OF DEFENCE for necessary action on 26th December 2013

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Believe me fellow citizen, the culprits of deliberately creating hindrances in the opportunity and fundamental rights of the lakhs of the youth of this great nation for consideration for public employment in DRDO will be very soon brought to the book only with the active cooperation of the concerned youth candidates and their parents.

CVC Registered the complaint – vide 30714/2013/ Vigilance 9 on 25th November 2013
30714/2013/ Vigilance 9 complaint has been sent to CVO MINISTRY OF DEFENCE for necessary action on 26th December 2013

Appeal

I call upon all concerned youth members of the public of this great nation who either applied for various posts in CEPTAM 06. in DRDO And didn’t get call letters and who wanted to apply but couldn’t apply due to the deliberate bottleneck created in the form of mobile registration, concerned parents of those youth candidates and fellow honest citizens (which inter-alia includes honest employees and officers of DRDO also) to provide information of the following kinds of acts and omissions of deliberate corruption done in the form of sugar coated capsules (seemingly making believing the general public at large as if the culprits acted in public interest) containing only poison which turned out fatal to all those members of the youth who either applied against the various post under CEPTAM 06 in DRDO but could not get call letters or who could not succeed in applying just for want of mobile registration since after repeated attempts mobile registration couldn’t take place.

1. Corruption in the form of making mobile registration as mandatory for applying for the various posts

(a) Kindly provide the information of the attempts made by you and by your parents for mobile registration at mobile no. between to to complete the first mandatory step for applying for the various posts in DRDO against CEPTAM -06 .

(b) Kindly provide the information of the time period in which the website of CEPTAM Delhi remained un operational/un-accessible due to which you couldn’t apply online for the various posts in DRDO against CEPTAM-06.

2. Corruption in the form of non-issuance of call letters to the persons who applied online and also sent offline applications for direct recruitment of various posts in DRDO against CEPTAM-06

(a) Kindly send the print out of your online application form against which you did not get call letter.

(b) Kindly send photocopies of your offline application forms against which you did not get call letter.

(c) Kindly send photocopy of the counter foil of the Indian Postal Order which you have attached with your offline application form sent with the CEPTAM, Delhi under CEPTAM-06 in respect of which you didn’t get the call letter.

(d) Kindly intimate me the manner through which you submitted your offline applications form to CEPTAM, Delhi against which you did not get the call letter.

(e) Kindly intimate the efforts made by you to get issued call letters from CEPTAM (including the information of the phone number of CEPTAM Delhi on which you made your efforts) and the results of such efforts.

(f) Kindly intimate the name of the officials of CEPTAM whom you contacted personally or on official telephone of the CEPTAM, Delhi but still your grievance was not redressed.

3. Corruption in the form of issuing defective call letters.

(a) Kindly send photocopies of the online print out of your application from and the defective call letters issued to you due to which you could not appear in the exam of CEPTAM-06 of DRDO.

(b) Kindly send photo copies of your offline application forms and the defective call letters issued to you due to which you could not appear in the exam of CEPTAM-06 of DRDO.

4. Corruption in the form of allotting exam centre at far off places altering the choice given by the candidate.

(a) Kindly send photo copies of your online print application form and the call letter issued to you un which the centre of written exam was allotted at different far off place due to which you could not appear in the written exam.

(b) Kindly send photo copies of your offline print application form and the call letter issued to you in which the centre of written exam was allotted at different far off place due to which you could not appear in the written exam.

5. Corruption in the form of non-ensuring of the website of CEPTAM operational and functional just some days before the exam.

(a) Kindly intimate the date of your failed attempts when you wanted to access the website of CEPTAM to download the call letter but you could not open the website and hence you could not appear for the exam.

6. Corruption in the form of late sending the call letter to the candidates.

(a) Kindly send the photocopies of the call letters which you received late.