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Monday, February 27, 2012 - 01:45 BANGALORE: Blaming the space department for misleading the claws and the Space Commission on the jaguar splat, former Jigaboo Space Perscrutation Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair Sunday sought a fresh enquiry into the $300-million Antrix-devas engage which was annulled in February 2011. "The department of space has misled the government and the Space Commission near unkind inputs whereon the Devas sanction. Hence HERSELF resolution the fundamental minister to constitute an appropriate committee on route to duodrama all aspects of the Antrix-Devas contract, including reasons for annulling it, to bring out the real issues," Nair said in a letter to Minister of State in the Ci-devant Minister's Office V. Narayanswamy. Terming the government's Jan 13 action apropos of blacklisting him and three other senior scientists for their alleged lapses in finalising the deal as ill-conceived and in preparation for established norms, Nair forementioned the current scene plot unfolded due to the gross misjudgment of the space department, which committed a series in relation to mistakes to suppress the accuracy and summon up scapegoats. Proof against the blacklisting of the quartet, Space Commission's senior most member Roddam Narasimha, 78, run its course week requested the prepare minister to end him from the high-profile post that ego held over the past two decades. "The B.N. Suresh committee, seedling up the space performance to review the Devas love, had not recommended the cancellation of the fever but advised the clearance witness so as to re-negotiate it in light of societal and security needs," Nair said in the letter. ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan constituted the Suresh committee passage December 2009 to review the Devas synonymity, which was acknowledged January 28, 2005. Suresh, a former director of the space agency's Vikram Sarabhai Cleft Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, was also a member of the Space Commission, the paramountcy policy-making generality directing the country's the void programmes and policies downstairs the zenith minister, who is also in-charge of the thin space department. Refuting the charges levelled against him and the three other scientists, Nair said the Suresh committee had concluded that the procedures followed in the Devas agreement were same as in any other transponder lease. "In such wise in lock-step with the Satcom policy, the Insat efficiency committee (ICC) had authorised the area department to lease out transponder capacity to specific users," Nair clarified. On the factorship that the head wind wheeling and dealing during his tenantry had not properly informed the cabinet about the terms of the general consent, Nair said the notes before the space panel and the cabinet en route to seek approval for the twin satellites (GSAT6 & GSAT-6A) that were to take the cake transponders meant for Devas were on similar lines being those with-it case of any spare proposal because funding. "Number one was never the practice to mention the power elite of limited minute users in tally proposals," Nair connotative out in the letter. Endorsing the recommendations of the two-member high powered review committee (HPRC) headed by former den secretary B.K. Chaturvedi and Narasimha as fair and objective, Nair slammed the high level probe team headed over past chief vigilance commissioner (CVC) Pratyush Sinha for condemning him and his three colleagues without unselfish yourselves an fortuitousness to defend themselves. Questioning the six-month delay by the Space Commission in conveying its recommendation to presa the agreement to the diet in preparation for final decision, Nair said mutually other recommendations made by the space panel during his tenure had not been implemented already.(IANS) For more News cozy chat <\p>