smanekshaw
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DRDO India's lumbering dinosaur
DRDO India's lumbering dinosaur
The culture of cronyism and incompetence is embedded, but there are other reasons too, such as overstaffed with clowns, accepting projects it has no business accepting etc.Bureaucracy, red tape and the desire to live in the lap of luxury with no accountability being one of the sacred cows of the political establishment.
This suggestion is good but will not work when political parties start demanding reservation on the basis of casts SC/ST/BC/ Ladies seats/ language wise/ state-wise/ religion etc etc..selection of candidates in parties must be based on something like entrance test and interviews. Election Commission should setup a mechanism through which Candidates can be piped. Also the democratization of Political parties,their accountability and transparency of funds and allocation of seats must be assured. Electoral reforms are the first steps. it feels like India is trapped b/w bastard Politicians and nepotism of Bureaucrats.
This is what the article calls penny wise and pound foolish.when drdo chief cannot sanction 75 crore for project on hus own, you can understand, what are the state of affairs in our defence, when he sanctioned project by lowering its budget, red flags were raised. How can someone work in such enviroment???
And a babu-infested government organizations in India cannot get anything right, let alone complex project management.It is about project management, not whether it is government or private enterprise.
Btw I love the piece. Had a good laugh.
Seriously dude, this is your solution for cribbing the losing credibility of Indian Politicians ? You want our Political system to be like our Obsolete Education system where one is only judge on the basis of how much he can score in an paper based exam ? This is definitely not a realistic solution for our problems.selection of candidates in parties must be based on something like entrance test and interviews. Election Commission should setup a mechanism through which Candidates can be piped. Also the democratization of Political parties,their accountability and transparency of funds and allocation of seats must be assured. Electoral reforms are the first steps. it feels like India is trapped b/w bastard Politicians and nepotism of Bureaucrats.
Don't crib about reservation. You cant do anything other than working hard to overcome this disadvantage.This suggestion is good but will not work when political parties start demanding reservation on the basis of casts SC/ST/BC/ Ladies seats/ language wise/ state-wise/ religion etc etc..
Btw they have linked Aura to the Kaveri engine. Killed it right thereDRDO should be only for development of strategic systems of National importance such as Ballistic Missiles, Cruise Missiles and other secretive stuff (such as AURA ?) and sub-systems which cannot be sourced. (in the league of DARPA, achievable ?). No need to dilute DRDO but we should definitely find an alternative for organisations such as HAL and ADA most preferably in our Private Sector.
My point precisely. But why r we in this predicament. Because DRDO can't step up to the plate.Dont be too critical of HAL,DRDO etc....you are seeing openly how we are being screwed in the gorshakov deal...Every day one new story and theory is appearing regarding Gorshakov failures....DRDO .HAL,BEL needs the raw materials for all of their projects... which we dont have....No semiconductors are manufactured in India...No fab facilities.... Brain drain from top engineering institutions.....adding to that all the traditional ills that plague India...Regionalism,casteism, corruption, and all isms....
You want this rubbish that you wrote to be reviewed? Seriously?Please read and comment
DRDO India's lumbering dinosaur
I like this part. I had mentioned something on these lines earlier, and ended up in a heated debate:Please read and comment
DRDO India's lumbering dinosaur
And here is a nice way of selling old wine in new bottle:Despite its unclassified salary budget of over 10,000 Crores there is very little for DRDO to be proud about, other than instant food packets and portable toilets.
And this is a fine example of scratching each others' backs:The latest fancy is to develop reusable missiles, which will return after dropping their payload. No one points out that such technology already exists and is called an aircraft.
Inconvenience and utter stupidity:DRDO's progress in various fronts is judged by Professors from the IIT's, IISc etc. However these very people receive funds from DRDO for their research.
And lack of trust, of course:Many DRDO labs do not even have internet access for 'security reasons'.
This is a typical problem with many Indian Institution, and the less I speak about it, the better:Despite its massive 10000Cr budget scientists from different labs wouldn't be trusted to use their own vehicles to attend a meeting.
This is actually a good thing:DRDO has a bunch of in-house journals where the same set of 'scientists' publish, review and pat each other on the back.
I disagree with this. How likely is a person from the engineering corp to find out about phenomena like the Monroe effect?One DRDO lab has no clue as to what the other is trying to do, so they end up trying to solve the same problem over and over again.
I think we are already moving in the right direction with this:Researches on small arms, grenades, RPG's etc are best left to the engineering corps of our army who work with these weapons everyday. Task these engineers with replicating and improving armaments that we currently import.
Good article!Encourage the private sector to design and develop weapon systems.