Faulty planning causing MiG crashes: Rakesh

Ahmedabad: First Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma on Sunday blamed faulty planning in defence public sector units for MIG crashes. He was speaking at the annual confluence of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
PSUs like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO) are being run like political and bureaucratic fiefdom, said Sharma.
"The PSUs have the infrastructure but they do not have the expertise," he said. He proposed public-private partnership (PPP) model with Indian companies in these sectors.
As a tst pilot with the HAL, Sharma said he would send back fighter planes to the laboratories if he detected snags in their parts. But he soon found out that instead of doing research and development on these parts, the laboratories fitted the parts in another fighter plane. "The parts used to keep repeating the full circle consuming time and energy without any result," he said. The HAL does not even have an in-house test-pilot team, he said. Sharma said that there is a lack of transparency and accountability in PSUs and officers are not held responsible for poor results.
28/11/11 Times of India

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Categories: Safety Nov 2011