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Visit of the Abid Hussain Committee
A top level CSIR Review
Committee, under the
chairmanship of Abid Hussain,
visited NAL on 16 July 1986.
The Committee made a series of
important recommendations –
including the recommendation
that every CSIR establishment
must earn at least a third of its
revenue from external sources.
Abid Hussain (left) with R Narasimha,
A P Mitra – who took over a CSIR’s
Director General in 1986 from
S Varadarajan, and M Shivakumara
Swamy at the NAL wind tunnel.
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