Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has another achievement to its credit and another feather in its hat. It has done great pride to the country by breaking new ground in India’s space technology. The Prime Minister travelled all the way to Sri Hari Kota, about a hundred miles from Chennai, to personally witness the ISRO technocrats and scientists successfully launching five foreign satellites on board an indigenous rocket. The Prime Minister had praise and appreciation for India’s eminent scientists and technocrats whose three generations are working like a big family at the ISRO. India is now among the few countries of the world with advanced space technology. But what has been achieved is not the end of the game. Each success prompts us to go in for further research and experimentation. By and large India’s space mission is for peaceful purposes. We need to eradicate poverty and backwardness and the Prime Minister is right in saying that ultimately the fruits of our achievements in the laboratories and work offices should be visible on the ground and ordinary Indian should become its recipient. He envisions Indian universities and colleges linked through satellite network, a mechanism that would immensely contribute to the raising high educational standards in our country.
In his vision of India playing her rightful role in the region, the Prime Minister suggested the scientists and technocrats at ISRO to develop; a SAARC satellite which can be dedicated as a gift from India to the neighbouring countries. The purpose is to provide them the opportunity of making use of the gifted satellite for removing poverty and deprivation from their countries. We appreciate the Prime Minister’s goodwill gesture towards the SAARC countries who were our distinguished guests at the oath taking ceremony of the Prime Minister.
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