Finish Projects On Time, World Is Not Waiting For You: PM Modi To DRDO

NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of delays in several of its major projects, Modi told the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to speed up and complete its programmes in time as the world will not wait for it.

PM Narendra Modi asked DRDO to finish its projects on time. Reuters

Urging the country's only defence research agency to give more opportunities to the youth, the Prime Minister suggested that DRDO should take initiatives in projects which would help in easing the lives of the armed forces personnel.

"The time demands... the world will not wait for us. We have to run ahead of time. That is why whatever we do, we should try hard to do it before time. It should not be so that a project is conceived in 1992 and in 2014 (we say) it will take some more time. The world will go ahead," Modi said in his address to DRDO in its award function.

The Prime Minister said technology in defence sector was changing fast and even before we conceptualise a system, "products which are two steps ahead come in the market and we are left behind."

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