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V.P. Sandlas
Ved Prakash Sandlas was one of the first fifty engineers who joined ISRO during the formative years of 1962-67 and rose to head SLV-3 as Project Director during 1980-84. Subsequently, he shifted to DRDO and worked as Director, Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL), from 1986 to 1996 and later served as Distinguished Scientist and Chief Controller R & D from 1996 to 2005, in the area of using space technology for defence applications. He also set up the Amity Institute of Space Science and Technology, as Director General, along with Amity Institute of Aerospace Engineering (2008-13). He has been awarded DRDO's Scientist of the Year award (1988), FIE Foundation National Award (1998) for Science & Technology, and IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award (2012).