DRDO units named after APJ Abdul Kalam
The govt was aiming at complete indigenisation of missile technology by 2020
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-10-16 03:14 GMT
Hyderabad: Prestigious defence units in the missile complex belonging to the DRDO here were renamed on Thursday after former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Defence minister Manohar Parrikar said the government was aiming at complete indigenisation of missile technology by 2020 as dreamt by Kalam.
Mr Parrikar renamed the Missile Complex here, comprising the Advanced Systems Laboratory, Defence Research and Development Laboratory and Research Centre Imarat, as the APJ Abdul Kalam Missiles Complex.
Mr Parrikar said the Centre has initiated a five year plan to achieve self reliance in missile technology. He said Kalam had guided the country for long and now the government has identified certain gaps and was focussing on closing them.
He said that the Centre was open to absorbing women in all three services but only when the required amenities and infrastructural facilities were provided to them. Earlier, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao unveiled a bronze statue of Kalam at the DRDL. He said “APJ showed us the way forward and we must follow his lead.”