New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has said the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been able to save an amount of Rs 2,64,156 crore because of its own “indigenous research” over the last five years.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, in a report presented in Parliament on Tuesday, also said that in the past and current year, “crucial milestones in developing next-generation hypersonic technologies and missiles have been achieved” by the DRDO.
The committee congratulated the DRDO for its “various feats” and said the agency will “continue its successful stride” in the fields of various complex and critical technologies to strengthen indigenous defence research and development capabilities of the country, according to the report.
