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DRDO merges 2 labs to create new one for focused research

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 12/2/2020 11:50:56 AM

New Delhi, Dec 01 The new lab will focus on research on terrain and avalanches along the border with China from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's directives, the government has merged two DRDO laboratories to create a new one to do focused research on terrain and avalanches along the borders with China and Pakistan. "The Defence Research and Development Organisation [DRDO] has created a new laboratory named Defence Geo Informatics Research Establishment by merging two exiting labs. The new lab will focus on research on terrain and avalanches along the border with China from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh," government sources told India Today TV. The merger would help in bringing together the capabilities and resources of the two labs which will now be working with the same mission statement. The two new labs merged by the government are the Manali-headquartered Snow and Avalanche Studies Establishment (SASE) and the Delhi-based Defence Terrain Research Establishment. The merger of these labs is the first step in the large scale reforms to be taken in the DRDO by its chief Dr G Satheesh Reddy, with an aim to make the organisation more lean and mean and more result- oriented. The SASE has been very actively engaged in the study of snow and avalanches in the operational areas. It has prepared an avalanche atlas of almost 3,000 on-road locations in different parts of the country where the armed forces are deployed.