Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi presented DRDO Awards 2013 to some outstanding scientists/teams/institutions for their significant contribution in path breaking research and technology development in different areas at the DRDO headquarters, New Delhi, on 20 August 2014. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley speaking at the event to top defence scientists and technologists, said that for decades India has lived in a disturbed neighborhood, as a result of which our national security has to be an issue of topmost national priority. Adding further that our preparedness is the best guarantee of peace in this region, the Minister said, “Over the last five and half decades, undoubtedly DRDO with its high intellectual talent pool has grown into an indigenous laboratory for the Government and the people of India… Where there is intellectual talent available this has to lead obviously to next step and the next step has to be that they have to become a hub for defence manufacturing. So far we have lived with an error, where we were quite satisfying partly researching and partly manufacturing ourselves and substantially relying on equipment from outside. I think that equation is slowly changing; but this slow pace needs to be expedited.”
Prime minister presents DRDO awards
