PM Narendra Modi Asks DRDO To Complete Projects In Time

Modi said: “DRDO has to decide whether it has to respond to the situation or it has to be proactive and set agenda for the world and we have to set agenda for the global committee... We can be the world leader by not following but by showing the way.”

He said it was not that India lacked the talent pool but “I think there is this ‘chalta hai’ (lackadaisical) attitude.''

Several DRDO projects such as the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, Nag missile, Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile project and the Airborne Early Warning and Control System projects have been delayed by many years and seen several cost overruns.

Drawing parallels between his government and the DRDO, the Prime Minister said, “People say that Modiji, we have lot of hopes and expectations from your government. People will have hopes from people who work as nobody would have hopes from people who don’t do anything. I have hopes from DRDO because I know that DRDO has the capability to perform.”

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