Shishir Gupta
DRDO’s powers induce got been enhanced yesteryear the authorities for sanctioning projects together with competitive procurement to Rs 150 crore from the existing Rs 75 crore. The Narendra Modi authorities has taken its get-go steps towards restructuring together with revamping the Defence Research together with Development Organisation (DRDO) yesteryear reviving the defunct DRDO Science together with Technology Management Council (DSTMC) nether the chairmanship of principal scientific advisor K Vijayraghavan together with doubling the fiscal powers of the secretary, DRDO, to Rs 150 crore. According to a July iii notification accessed yesteryear Hindustan Times, the reconstituted DSTMC is a high-profile trunk that volition nautical chart the time to come of DRDO laboratories inward synergy amongst the scientific discipline together with engineering scientific discipline department. The other members of DSTMC are secretary, DRDO; chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO); chairman, Atomic Energy Commission; together with secretaries of the subdivision of scientific discipline together with technology, together with subdivision of world sciences.
Instead of retired officers equally inward the past, chairmen of defense forcefulness world sector undertakings similar Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Bharat Electronics Ltd, BEML Ltd together with Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd are members, along amongst the directors of Indian Institutes of Technologies at Delhi, Kharagpur, Madras together with Bombay.
This high-power Council volition produce a review of the surgery of all 42 laboratories of the DRDO together with existing scientific discipline together with engineering scientific discipline laboratories together with thence that at that topographic point is no overlap of piece of occupation together with synergy betwixt the defence, space, atomic loose energy together with educational institutions involved inward high-end research. The Council volition equally good determine on interrogation together with evolution priorities inward the defense forcefulness sector. This agency it volition hold out this council that volition laid the agenda for the DRDO to engage inward move yesteryear goal technologies or functional day-to-day technologies.
The Council’s recommendations volition hold out sent to the defense forcefulness ministry.
The Council volition equally good await into personnel management of 7,500 scientists inward the DRDO laboratories together with explore the thought of lateral induction of talent for a express stream from IITs together with other Indian institutions. The full strength of DRDO is 30,000 personnel amongst fifty-fifty secretary, DRDO, having express fiscal powers. This has at in 1 trial changed.
According to or together with thence other notification, the powers of the secretary, DRDO induce got been enhanced for sanctioning projects together with competitive procurement to Rs 150 crore from the existing Rs 75 crore. The fiscal powers of manager full general (DRDO) induce got been enhanced from Rs 25 crore to Rs 75 crore. Financial powers of directors of laboratories induce got been enhanced from Rs two crore to Rs five crore. In unmarried tender cases, the powers of secretary, DRDO, induce got been enhanced to ?75 crore, DG (DRDO) to Rs 37.5 crore together with lab directors to Rs 2.5 crore. The powers of DG for sanctioning interrogation together with evolution projects at universities together with the indigenous defense forcefulness manufacture induce got been enhanced to Rs five crore. The powers inward instance of post service contract management together with maintenance back upward induce got been delegated to DG (DRDO) on par amongst the armed forces.
“The setting upward of the Council together with the empowerment of DRDO secretarial assistant are all designed to boost indigenization together with promote domestic manufacture to gear upward high-end platforms inward club to trim down global reliance for armed forces hardware,” said a senior defense forcefulness ministry building official.
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