Projects discontinued closed by DRDO

A total of seven projects have been short closed/stage closed/cancelled by the DRDO during the last three years.
The reasons for the decision to discontinue or close these projects and the total amount of expenses that had been incurred in these closed discontinued projects, project-wise is given below:

S. No.	Project Title (Lab)	Current PDC/ Date of       closure	Cost (Rs in Cr)	Expenditure	Reason
1	Thin Film Sensing System for Kaveri Engine	31 Jan 2018	20.75	Rs. 10, 000/-	No technical activities progressed with development partner (NRC, Canada).
2	Four Stroke Horizontally Opposed Four Cylinder Engine for UAV	17 Jul 2014	45.80	Rs. 2.7617 Cr	Change in User requirements
3	Fifty Five Numbers of Sudershan Mk-1 Kits for Evaluation Trials	24 Jan 2016 (under short closure)	85.13	Rs.10.49 Cr	Change in User requirements.
4	Multi Mission Radar	18 Feb  2016	193.44	Rs.  6.6033 Cr (Outstanding commitments of  Rs. 3.9773 Cr transferred to Project ‘QRSAM)’	Activities  subsumed to Project  QRSAM
5	Semantic Service Oriented Architecture	30 Aug 2014	4.90	Rs. 18.56 lakhs	Project reformulated with a revised scope and comprehensive definition. A new project Multi-Agent Robotics System (MARS) taken thereafter
6	Terrain Visualization and Simulation Facility	22 Sep 2016	9.90	NIL	Infrastructure to be developed in the project to be taken up later after technology development. The project was thus cancelled and no expenditure incurred.
7	Lab on Chip	31 Mar 2017	4.80	Rs. 80,000	Fresh proposal to be taken up under NBC Phase-2 Programme.

The steps taken/being taken by DRDO to ensure that the discontinuation and cancellation of projects are taken at an early stage are:

•	More stringent review mechanisms including tracking of timely completion of reviews.
•	Involvement of Services & production partners during development process and reviews.

This information was given by Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply to ShriDerek O’Brienin Rajya Sabha today.

Courtesy:pib.nic.in