DRDO, IIT-BHU BRAINSTORM ON DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

VARANASI : The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and IITBHU, Varanasi jointly organised brainstorming sessions for collaboration related to defence technologies on April 25 and 26.

The IIT-BHU is already working in various indigenously developed defence technologies. The institute is a knowledge partner in the UP Defence Corridor project and hosts a regional academic centre of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). “The planned collaboration with DRDO is likely to strengthen our efforts related to developing indigenous defence technologies,” says Prof Pramod Kumar Jain, director IIT- BHU. The overall aim of such defence related activities jointly with DRDO and other organisations is to decrease India’s defence import and make it ‘Atmanirbhar’ in defence sector.

A discussion took place between the scientists from DRDO and faculty of IIT-BHU, Varanasi to accelerate research in the area of powder metallurgy, electronic and functional materials as well as high power microwave sources and devices. Several areas of mutual interests were identified for defence technology development. Considering the decision of the Government of India to import defence equipment from foreign industry only in exceptional cases, development/upgradations of indigenous defence technologies has become very important. Dr SV Kamat, director general (NS&M), Dr Hari Babu Srivastava, director general (TM) and Dr Kailash Kumar Pathak, director, DRDO headquarter, New Delhi led the DRDO team of 20 scientists from various DRDO labs including DMRL, Hyderabad, SSPL, New Delhi, LRDE/ MTRDC, Bangalore and DMSRDE Kanpur.