India leading most successful space programme in world: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India has emerged as a global space power and is now leading the most cost-effective but successful space programme in the entire world.

- First India Bureau

Addressing the 121st episode of Mann ki Baat, Modi said that many countries are taking the help of the ISRO for their satellites. He said, "April marks 50 years of the launch of the Aryabhatta Satellite. Today, when we look back and remember this journey, we realise how far we have come. This flight of India's dreams in space once commenced with just conviction."

Recalling the time when some young scientists worked with no modern resources or technology, often carrying critical equipment themselves on bullock carts and bicycles, Modi said, It was their "talent, dedication, hard work and the passion to do something for the country", that laid the foundation of India's space success. Many of the satellites that India uses today were launched under the supervision of Dr. Kasturirangan, he said.

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