GoI constitutes a high-power committee to restructure DRDO

The Ministry of Defence has extensively effected restructuring and transformation of the Ordinance Factory Board (OFB).  A nine-member committee has been appointed to assess and revamp the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) operations. The committee is being led by Vijay Raghavan, the former Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. Other members includes Lt Gen (Retd) Subrata Saha, who previously served as 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 Defence Staff; Sujan R Chinoy, Director General of MP-IDSA; Prof Manindra Agarwal from IIT Kanpur; Mahindra Group’s S.P. Shukla, President of SIDM; J D Patil from Larsen and Toubro’s Defense division; Dr S Unnikrishnan Nair, Distinguished Scientist at ISRO; and Ms Rasika Chaube, Financial Advisor at the Ministry of Defence. The committee’s scope is extensive, promising a significant transformation of the organisation.