The saga of the scandalous deal that would have given a private company, Devas Multimedia, control over a large chunk of valuable S-band spectrum has not ended. If the agreement signed with Antrix Corporation in 2005, the marketing wing of the ISRO, had been allowed to stand, Devas could have made a killing.
Four former officials, including G. Madhavan Nair who was ISRO chairman when the deal was signed, were barred from holding any government position. The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Watch this space: Is it the government's considered view that these four officials were solely responsible for the deal? What about the Space Commission, which has a key oversight role over the space programme? Were the members of the Commission as blissfully unaware of the deal as is made out?
"The Antrix-Devas deal has raised fundamental questions about decision-making and oversight processes in the space programme. The government must come clean on what actually transpired by placing in the public domain the reports prepared by Dr. Suresh, the Chaturvedi-Narasimha committee and the high-level team."
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