On Vacation
“The price of life is eternal vigilance.” ― Graham Greene, The Heart of The Matter This weekend we are on vacation.
The recession has worked out really well for India’s Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). During the boom years of the economy, DRDO would hardly get any grads from the top notch Science and Engineering schools and colleges. Every year its intake is 500 for its 52 labs. (DRDO’s Recruitment and Assessment Centre website)
This year, 60 of those 500 will be IIT-ians. In 2008, interestingly 150 NRIs applied for positions in DRDO and 30 were finally recruited. The recruitment process includes a common scientist entry test and hiring via campus recruitment. The organization goes across 40 campuses and shows no bias towards any college including the IITs. Requirements for hiring NRIs are as follows
What has changed? Well, the 6th pay commission has made it lucrative for new grads to work for DRDO and also provided better promotion options. The awards for inspiring good scientists has increased to Rs 2 crores this year. So there is enough incentive for the young and the bright to perform and do well. DRDO also has a special ROSSA scheme that hires fresh PhDs:
Registration of Students with Scholastic Aptitude (ROSSA) for the fresh PhD scholars. Fresh PhD scholars are those who have pursued the studies up to the PhD level without any break of not more than two academic years, after the post-graduation in science subjects including Mathematics or Psychology or graduation in Engineering or Medical Sciences.
What say? Thinking of going back and contributing to building the scientific base of the next big power in the world? Or at least contibute to the dreams of Dr. Kalam?
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