After years of bureaucratic empire building in which the DRDO used the rhetoric of "self-reliance" to accumulate a wealth of funds, manpower and laboratories, now a blizzard of media, military and ministry criticism has forced the abandonment of that autarkic worldview.

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</p><p class='TableClas'>The DRDO has realised the need to be more discriminating in choosing the technologies it will develop. Strategic technologies that will always be denied 

P>After years of bureaucratic empire building in which the DRDO used the rhetoric of "self-reliance" to accumulate a wealth of funds, manpower and laboratories, now a blizzard of media, military and ministry criticism has forced the abandonment of that autarkic worldview.

Ajai Shukla: Defining `self-reliance` for defence

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