With the creation of this committee, the Defence Ministry has finally acted upon a crucial recommendation made by the Vijay Kelkar committee almost two years ago, that DRDO’s functioning as a research body needed to be under the purview of a panel of independent experts.
The committee’s mandate is significant considering that the DRDO, last year told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that it had adequate audit mechanisms and did not consider it necessary to add another.
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