It is painful, how the media is irresponsible in India. The Indian express article with the caption "IGMDP scrapped", is the height of negative journalism. If you read the article fully, it is clear that except for the Trishul, all the four projects of the IGMDP are successess, may not be interms of the time taken, as originally claimed , but certainly in terms of the technology. India can proundly say that we have the indegenous technology for such state of art missiles. PRITHVI has been delivered to the army, and it is in their arsenal strength. Dhanush, is accepted by the navy, AGNI I is delivered in numbers to the army. AGNI II is also accepted and AGNI III is proved successfully after the initial first flight failure. The success of NAG has been witnessed by all the service personal wherein the missile has proved in the day as well as the night version by hitting the bulls eye. AKASH has recently proved successfull. The recent bullet hitting bullet was witnessed by many journalists which is an advanced air defence. Now, this speaks of the technological strengths of the DRDO. It certainly appears the handywork of certain vested interests who do not like the growth and successes of DRDO, may be DRDO's success may not be in the interest of the import lobby. In all fairness to the thousands of hard working dedicated scientists who have not ditched the country for greener software pastures, journalism needs to be positive and more encouraging.even if we have to buy we have to
