Nair writes to PMO, demands fresh probe into Antrix-Devas deal
"A
comprehensive enquiry should be held into the whole issue since
inception of Devas to till the cancellation of the Antrix-Devas
agreement and action taken against me and (three) other scientists on
the basis of the Prathyush Sinha committee," Nair demanded in his letter
to the PMO, the second one he shot off last week.
Nair
said he wrote the letter to the PMO sometime middle of last week
accusing the Department of Space (DoS) of having got the entire thing
"completely wrong" while deciding the cancellation and other issues
concerning the Antrix-Devas deal.
"Either
people who are involved in the DoS have not understood the issue
properly or there was some pressure from some quarters," Nair said
without naming anyone.
He
had earlier blamed ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan for the action
initiated by the government against him and three others barring them
from holding any government posts.
Virtually
coming down on the five-member committee headed by Sinha, Nair said
proper procedure was not followed in the report, which led the
government to take action against him and others.
"No
procedure was followed while taking action. Reasons cited for
cancelling the contract are not accurate. The committee distorted
facts," he alleged.
Nair
further said the DoS should have looked into the advantages of such
allocation of spectrum as it was necessary for mobile telephone
technology.
"What went behind the scene while taking a decision on cancelling the spectrum allocation should be looked into," he demanded.
Earlier in his letter to PMO, Nair had protested the action taken against him and fellow scientists.
The
PMO action had come in for flak from the scientific community, which
included well-known scientist Prof C N R Rao and others.
Recently,
another distinguished space scientist, Prof Roddam Narasimha, too
expressed displeasure over the action initiated against Nair and quit as
Space Commission Member.
Narasimha
on Saturday said he was yet to decide on the PMO's request for
reconsidering decision to quit the Space Commission, with which he had
been associated for about 20 years.
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