About this stamp
Sixty Years of DRDO
India Post issued this ₹10 stamp on 11 April 2018 for the diamond jubilee of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), founded in 1958, India’s leading organisation for the design and development of defence systems for the armed forces.
Its Work
DRDO’s 52 laboratories are grouped in seven technology clusters: aeronautics; armament and combat engineering; electronics and communication; life sciences; micro-electronic devices and computational systems; missiles and strategic systems; and naval systems and materials. They have produced missiles, aircraft, combat vehicles, tanks, radars, sonars and electronic warfare systems. DRDO also runs certification agencies for military airworthiness, for fire and explosives and for information security, and works with more than 1,000 small and medium enterprises and with centres of excellence at the IITs and Jadavpur University. According to India Post, systems it developed worth about ₹1.6 lakh crore were being inducted into the armed forces, and it won the National Intellectual Property Award in 2015.
On the Stamp
An aircraft, a missile and DRDO Bhawan, with the diamond jubilee emblem, 1958–2018. It was designed by Kamleshwar Singh, with the cancellation by Alka Sharma; 600,000 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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