CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Mr. Bhanu Prakash Srivastava, Director (Other Units), BEL, and Mr. S K Rout, Director (Operations), MIL, exchanged the MoU documents at Defexpo today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Also seen are General Bipin Rawat, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, Admiral Karambir Singh, Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria, the Defence Secretary, Ajay Kumar, the Secretary (Defence Production) and the Secretary, Raj Kumar, Department of Defence R&D and chairman, DRDO, G.

Detailed explanation-3: -In November 1962, a Department of Defence Production was set up to deal with research, development and production of defence equipment. In November 1965, the Department of Defence Supplies was created for planning and execution of schemes for import substitution of defence requirements.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Department of Defence Production (DDP) was set up in November 1962 with the objective of developing a comprehensive production infrastructure to produce the weapons, systems, platforms, equipment required for defence.