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Break the barrier of Bureaucrats urges scientist of DRDO
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SPECIALCORRESPONDENT on 25 March, 2008 01:11:00
 
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) today urged the government
to provide enough exposure to officers before deputation of them in the
organisation to break the barriers between bureaucrats and scientists. “We
need subtle feature to the advisory. It should be a balancing act both for
economic region and defence region. The lack of certain skills could pose
threat. These are the challenges DRDO is facing. They never had any exposure to
what defence equipments are all about,” informed the Director General of
Recruitment and Assessment Centre (RAC) and Secretary DRDO, M Natarajan while
inaugurating 'DARPAN', a permanent exhibition set up at the Recruitment and
Assessment Centre (RAC) in New Delhi on Monday. Echoing similar views, chief
guest of the function M M Pallam Raju, Minister of State for Defence, said,
“IAS officer should go to abroad and have proper training to help things
out. It is agreed they need exposure.” Earlier, inaugurating the
exhibition, Pallam Raju remarked, “It is a unique permanent exhibition of
DRDO, which showcases the Research and Technological strength of DRDO. The
exhibition provides an insight of DRDO?s activity and competence to young
researchers, job seekers, who are aspiring for DRDO as career, experts from
various disciplines and distinguished visitors from the country and
abroad.” Speaking to Headlines India, Chief Controller R&D and a
distinguished scientist Prahalada said that DARPAN displays all the products of
the past 20 years. From missile to aeronautics, combat system, radar,
communication, engineering support system and new material like electronic
warfare, simulation and armaments. “It is kind of audio-visual
presentation, which is also used as part of recruitment promotion for the new
scientist. We keep it dynamic and updated. RAC is the window for the
DRDO,” added Prahalada.