{"id":219736,"date":"2022-12-24T19:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219736"},"modified":"2022-12-24T19:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:20:25","slug":"cag-pulls-up-drdo-for-delay-in-the-completion-of-projects-and-failure-to-achieve-key-parameters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cag-pulls-up-drdo-for-delay-in-the-completion-of-projects-and-failure-to-achieve-key-parameters\/","title":{"rendered":"CAG pulls up DRDO for delay in the completion of projects and failure to achieve key parameters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cCAG pulls up DRDO for delay in the completion of projects and failure to achieve key parameters\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 24th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Comptroller and Auditor General(CAG) has submitted a report in Parliament titled \u201cManagement and Outcome of Mission Mode Projects in DRDO\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Mission Mode(MM) Projects?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMission Mode\u201d(MM) projects are taken up by the DRDO on high priority, based on specific user requirements and with definite timeframes for their completion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These projects depend on technologies that are already available, proven and readily accessible within the DRDO or India or from abroad at a short notice.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the observations made by CAG on the DRDO Mission Mode Projects?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Mode(MM) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projects have a very high outcome certainty due to ready availability of underlying technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But still there were several issues in these projects such as <\/span><b>1)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> considerable delays in the initiation and sanction of such projects by the DRDO. <\/span><b>2) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cost overrun in completion of projects, <\/span><b>3) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">irregular closure of projects declaring them successful despite non-achievement of key objectives and <\/span><b>4) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">taking up of new projects for realizing the unachieved objectives of earlier closed projects declared as successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 119 out of 178 projects, the original time schedules could not be adhered to. In 49 cases, the additional time was in fact more than 100% of the original timeframe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, the delays ranged from 16% to 500% and the extension of time for the completion of projects was taken multiple times.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCAG pulls up DRDO for delay in the completion of projects and failure to achieve key parameters\u201d published in The Hindu on 24th December 2022 What is the News? The Comptroller and Auditor General(CAG) has submitted a report in Parliament titled \u201cManagement and Outcome of Mission Mode&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cag-pulls-up-drdo-for-delay-in-the-completion-of-projects-and-failure-to-achieve-key-parameters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CAG pulls up DRDO for delay in the completion of projects and failure to achieve key parameters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-219736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}