Well, the failure of DRDO is like any govt. organisation. One(the govt.employee)has to keep
his/her record white(no controversies please!)to get promoted. So, the system breeds failure.
Any way they are paid. So, better keep the record white with no failures. While in pvt. companies, lessons are learnt from mistakes, govt. system penalises risk takers. These people are most important in out of box thinking. If, they develop something interesting, they will not even receive a letter of thanks.
The Russians in their communist era, treated their main inventors with a lot of royalty. They are paid high, they become poltiboro member of communist party and respected almost like any VVIP.
The second thing is that we Indians degrade ourselves. Sorry to say, it is the truth. Whenever, when someone does anything new, the immediate question he/she is asked" Whether it is developed in USA, UK or some other western countries?
The third is robbing the credit of new invention or discovery from a junior staff. Sure, the top man can take the credit for managing, encouraging, mentoring not for actual development.
Why fight all these hurdles? So, every employee will beat the bush by presenting papers and papers and papers in journals. These are not useful for toilet paper, because we, mostly wash down with water.
The malady for these situations, is the govt.should reward each scientist/engineer/technician/even the lowest employee with about 1 crore to 2 crore. We have t
Re: DRDO should pay scientists like Russians do.....
by rathi raj on Oct 26, 2014 12:32 PM Permalink
There is no question of such huge monetary reward, but yes, the scientists must be encourages and recognised suitably. You do something for the nation, the entire nation should reward you with respect. Expecting money is unethical.
