The following are major ongoing projects of Defence Research
and Development Organisation (DRDO) lagging behind schedule:
|
Project
|
Probable Date of
Completion (PDC)
|
|
Original
|
Revised
|
|
Light Combat Aircraft (LCA),
Phase-II
|
December 2008
|
December 2015
|
|
Naval Light Combat Aircraft (LCA,
Navy), Phase-I
|
March 2010
|
December 2014
|
|
Aero-engine Kaveri
|
December 1996
|
December 2009#
|
|
Airborne Early Warning &
Control (AEW&C) System
|
October 2011
|
March 2014
|
|
Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile
(LR-SAM)
|
May 2011
|
December 2015
|
|
Air-to-Air Missile, Astra
|
August 2012
|
December 2016
|
# PDC has been further extended within the sanctioned
cost and scope.
The following are some of the reasons for
delay in completion of the above projects:-
·
Ab-initio development
of the state-of-the –art technologies.
·
Technical /
technological complexities.
·
Non-availability of
infrastructure / test facilities in the country.
·
Non-availability of
critical components / equipment / materials in the country and denial of
technologies by the technologically advanced countries.
·
Failure of some of the
components during trials / testing.
·
Increase in the scope
of work during developmental phase.
This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK
Antony in a written reply to Shri Piyush Goyal in Rajya Sabha today.
DM/HH/RAJ