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Father of Agni missiles
August 21 , 2024
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- Ram Narain Agarwal, regarded as the 'father of Agni missiles' in India, died recently at Hyderabad.
- He had served as the Agni programme director and also as the director of ASL (Advanced Systems Laboratory) in Hyderabad.
- He led India's Agni missile programme from its inception in 1983 until his retirement in 2005.
- The Centre conferred him with Padma Shri in the year 1990 and Padma Bhushan in 2000.
- The Agni missile is the most ambitious of the five missiles sought to be developed under the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme launched by the Union government in 1983.
- The others were Prithvi, Akash, Nag, and Trishul.
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