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     Before India became an independent nation in 1947, the defence of the country was the responsibility of the Defence
     Department (under the British rule). Soon after India became Independent, the Defence Department became the
     Ministry of Defence, headed by a Minister of Cabinet rank.

     According to the Constitution of India, the President of India is the the supreme commander of the Armed Forces and
     executive responsibility for national defence rest with the Union Cabinet of which Defence Minister is an important
     member. The official designation of the Defence Minister is Raksha Mantri (RM) who is assisted a Ministry of State
     called Rajya Raksha Mantry (RRM) assisting the RM. Some times there may be more than one RRM.

" DRDO will get transformed into a Technological Leader of World Class with corporate structure and with a mission of
making the nation independent of foreign Technology in critical spheres "

The Mission and objective of DRDO

" Design and development which will lead to production, of the state-of-art weapons and equipment and other support
systems as required by the Indian defence services from time to time "

     DRDO was formed in 1958 from the amalgamation of the then already functioning Technical Development
     Establishment (TDEs) of the Indian Army and the Directorate of Technical Development & Production (DTDP) with the
     Defence Science Organisation (DSO). DRDO was then a small organisation with 10 establishments or laboratories.
     Over the years it has grown multi-directionally in terms of the variety of subject disciplines number of the laboratories,
     as well as achievements and stature.

     Today, DRDO is 50 labs strong and is deeply engaged in developing Defence technologies covering various disciplines
     like aeronautics, armaments, electronics, combat vehicles, engineering systems, instrumentation, missiles, advanced
     computing and simulation, special materials, naval systems, life sciences,training, information systems and
     agriculture. Presently, the Organisation is backed by over 5000 scientists and about 25,000 other scientific, technical
     and supporting personnel. Several major projects for the development of missiles, armaments, light combat aircrafts,
     radars, electronic warfare systems etc are on hand and significant achievements have already been made in several
     such technologies.