PM Narendra Modi Asks DRDO To Complete Projects In Time

NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of delays in several of its major projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked the Defense Research and Development Organization to speed up and complete its programmes on time as the world will not wait for it.

Urging the country’s only defense 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 defense sector was changing fast and "even before we conceptualize a system, products which are two steps ahead come in the market and we are left behind''.

“That is why the challenge before India is that how do we complete work before time. If the world is coming up with some products in 2020, can we come in the field prepared with products in 2018,” he said.

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