On Wednesday (23 August), the union defence ministry arrange a high-power staff to overtake the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has constituted a nine-member committee of consultants to evaluate and redefine the position of assorted departments inside DRDO, as per studies.
The newly constituted excessive energy committee might be headed by Prof Vijay Raghavan, who beforehand served as Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. He was additionally one of many key architects of the National Research Foundation (NRF).
The committee must submit its report inside three months and work with a mandate to overtake the DRDO.
The different consultants on this DRDO evaluate committee embrace –
Lt Gen (Retd) Subrata Saha – Former Deputy Chief of Army Staff
Vice Admiral S N Ghormade – Former Vice Chief of Navy Staff
Air Marshal B R Krishna – Former Chief of Integrated Staff
Sujan R Chinoy – Director General of MP-IDSA
Manindra Agarwal – Professor at IIT Kanpur
S.P. Shukla – President SIDM
J D Patil – Larsen and Toubro, Defence
Dr S Unnikrishnan Nair – Distinguished Scientist, ISRO
Rasika Chaube – Financial Advisor, Ministry of Defence
As per the Hindustan Times report, DRDO Chief Samir V Kamat conveyed Minister Rajnath Singh’s choice to the committee. He additionally knowledgeable its members of the phrases of reference that are as below.
Restructuring and redefining the capabilities of Department of Defence (R &D) and DRDO. It will even embrace their relationship with one another and with academia and trade.
Ways to maximise the participation of academia, MSME, and start-ups within the improvement of innovative applied sciences.
To undertake a Performance pushed method. This embrace methods to draw and retain high-quality manpower. Additionally, it embrace a system of undertaking based mostly manpower by utilizing incentives and disincentives and strict efficiency accountability, thus hunting down the non-performers.
Focus on utilising the experience of NRIs/international consultants and inter-country collaborations in order to develope innovative and disruptive defence applied sciences.
Modernise administrative, personnel, and monetary frameworks to expedite undertaking implementation.
Laboratory buildings to be rationalised to higher consider their efficiency course of.
This main choice to evaluate and overhaul the functioning of the DRDO and all the defence analysis and manufacturing eco-system comes within the wake of issues concerning lack of accountability and delayed analysis works within the organisation.
DRDO sometimes works like a authorities PSU and handles every little thing associated to defence, like analysis, improvement, and manufacturing. It has been a long-awaited demand to enhance its coordination and assist for the non-public sector.