DESARAJU SURYA
Hyderabad: More than two years after Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy made an announcement over the setting up of National Technical Research Organisation in Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh government has allotted 37.17 acres of land to the specialized technical intelligence agency of the country for setting up its Strategic Facility Centre in the state.
NTRO is an apex scientific organization functioning under the National Security Adviser in the Prime Minister's Office. It is engaged in development and deployment of systems for national security.
The state, Cabinet that met here two days ago, approved the proposal to hand over the land at Shamirpet in Ranga Reddy district to the apex organization, whose activities include aviation, remote sensing, data gathering and processing, cyber security, crypto systems, strategic hardware and software development and also strategic monitoring.
NTRO’s Strategic Facility Centre would come up at Shamirpet on the outskirts of Hyderabad, according to a Cabinet minister.
It was in May 2007 that the Chief Minister announced the setting up of NTRO in Hyderabad but it took over two years for the state government to allot required land for the project. “It is mostly due to procedural delays. But now everything has been cleared from our side,” the minister pointed out.
State government officials say the NTRO would have a catalytic effect on Information Technology establishments here by creating security-related professionals, products and services. The NTRO would also have a Disaster Recovery Centre as part of a national information repository exchange, the officials add.
A National Information Infrastructure Protection Centre will also be part of the NTRO. NIIPC, which is supposed to be India's first hi-tech critical infrastructure protection centre, will engage in research and development in information protection making use of the IT industry and educational institutions in Hyderabad. “This way, the NTRO centre will have a major catalytic effect on IT establishments in our state,” a senior official in the Chief Minister’s Office said.
The NTRO will also include the National Institute of Cryptology Research and Development (NICRD), a premier institute and first-of-its-kind in Asia. The NICRD will create a pool of experts in information security for industry and government. It will also design and develop encryption products for national security applications, government sources said. It will have state-of-the-art laboratories like simulation labs and digital fortress labs for financial security. It will have linkages with academic institutions and industries, the sources added.
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They are wasting money of our nothing else.these people do nothing
just sitting and surfing internet all day.i am sure this will go waste.
Any updates on NTRO? Any idea about the proposed location. Has the construction begun?
Any idea on the qualification for recruitment
Probably this will also be another white elephant like DRDO,ISRO which will claim to be world class using the media relations but will do nothing significant to scientific research and national security.Also since it involves national security in the recruitment they will discriminate muslims
DRDO is not so bad. They have developed several state of art missiles and LCA. Tank etc. NTRO is more professional b'cause it has different way of working. DRDO has some teething problem, but thats ok. (Different Rule for Different Officers). Biggest flaw is its merit based promotion shceme, which encourages nepotism. Family members are pushed at higher post through lateral induction. Then promoted at faster rate for doing nothing. Hard workers do PhDs publish papers etc. , but donot get promotions. That is really sad part of DRDO. I feel NTRO will not inherit all this from DRDO. RAC is a big white elephant doing nothing.
Lot of duplcatioj of work between drdo and ntro
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