Madhya Pradesh Major General Who Helped Build India’s Prithvi Missile Recalls How Army Initially Doubted Its Success
Retired Major General Shyam Shankar Srivatsava from Madhya Pradesh, who later retired as a Major General in the Indian Army, played a pivotal role in the development of India’s first indigenous ballistic missile, the Prithvi, even as sections of the military establishment initially doubted that the project would succeed, reported Bhaskar English.The officer, whose service record is closely tied