Three years after Modi rattled DRDO, little has changed

In 2014, Modi criticised communication gap between scientists at laboratories & soldiers on borders

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (right), who also holds the defence portfolio, takes a close look at the USHUS-II submarine sonar during the handing over ceremony of DRDO-developed products to the Indian Navy in New Delhi on Friday

Ajai Shukla

Last Updated : Mar 25 2017 | 10:45 PM IST

In 2014, when Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi attended the annual awards ceremony of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), he jolted the self-congratulatory annual function by insisting on timely delivery and innovation.

Criticising what he termed the DRDO’s “chalta hai” (lackadaisical) attitude, Modi placed it under a scanner that led, in early 2015, to the exit of Avinash Chander, the then DRDO’s chief. Two and a half years later, that reformist impulse has vanished, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) no longer demanding performance from a DRDO that functions much as it did in 2014. On Friday, Defence Minister

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