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By Vivek Raghuvanshi
NEW DELHI — Avinash Chander, director general of India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and scientific adviser to the defense minister, was removed from office 16 months before his term was to end.
A Ministry of Defence official said Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar decided that Chander, age 64 and working on a contract basis, should be replaced with a younger scientist on a permanent basis.
"I recommended this. We need someone young and didn't want somebody on contract to be in such a senior post," Parrikar said Wednesday. "We will find out someone good from the DRDO ... who has the urge for development."
The MoD source said Parrikar's decision will shake up what he described as "the inertia in DRDO."
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