DRDO to come out with Road Map for next 20 years
Bangalore, Oct 31 (UNI) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will come out with a road map for 'Managing Defence in the next 20 years', DRDO Chief Controller Prahlada said today.
Talking to newsmen here, he said the road map would be drawn at a three day international seminar scheduled to be held in New Delhi from December 3 to 5 to mark the validicatory of the Golden Jubilee year of DRDO.
Delegates, including those of defence organisations and institutions from more than 15 countries, with whom we have close contact in exchange of inputs will attend seminar in which latest developents in Aeronautical Engineering would be discussed, he said.
Replying to a question he said the attrition rate has drastically come down in DRDO following implementation of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations and also due to strides made in Engineering and Science and Technology sector by the country.
He said five years back, the attrition rate was 17 per cent and last year it was 10 per cent. But this year the rate may be in single digit. ''Attrition in DRDO has not affected. However, in the fields of Signal Proving, Microwaves, Aeronautical we are finding shortage of hands,'' he added.
Asked
whether
many
scientists
and
engineers
had
left
DRDO
as
they
were
deprived
of
share
in
the
royalty
on
Patents
obtained
by
DRDO,
Dr
Prahlada
said
''suitable
amendment
to
the
IPR
Act
has
been
made
and
submitted
to
the
ministry
and
it
has
to
be
passed
in
Parliament.
Once
it
is
through
the
issue
would
be
solved.''
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