PM Modi involving non-governmental entities in isro for space sector reforms: M Sankaran

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) M Sankaran while addressing an event in Bengaluru said that 38 years at ISRO, the author has observed a significant shift in the organization's approach. Previously, ISRO focused solely on delivering outcomes without much public visibility of its processes. In recent years, however, there has been a push to make ISRO's work more known to the public. During Chandrayaan-3's landing, Prime Minister Modi, though unable to attend in person due to the G20 summit, joined the live video feed early, waving the tricolor and applauding the success. He later visited the ISRO control center, expressing gratitude and emotion, apologizing for the early morning inconvenience, and emphasizing the importance of involving non-governmental entities in space activities, which led to space sector reforms.  #isro #nasa #space #drdo #india #chandrayaan #isromissions #astronomy #msankaran

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00:00I am here in ISRO for last 38 years. The main difference I am seeing in the approach of ISRO

00:08is that earlier what we do, how we do was not really known to anybody. Only the outcome of

00:14that as a service was made available to the concerned departments or public whatever it is.

00:21So it was only concentrating only on the outcome. But nowadays what we are seeing is that

00:26not only the outcome is essential that what we are doing also should reach public. It should

00:34be known to public. That is the change I am seeing in the recent years. Actually Chandrayaan

00:413 we had planned that Prime Minister should be here at the time of landing and unfortunately

00:50at that time the G20 meeting was scheduled at South Africa. He could not miss that and come.

00:59But he did promise to chairman that he will at least be available via video conferencing.

01:07He was supposed to be there only for the final 3-4 minutes. So we were supposed to give a queue. We

01:13have to give a queue so that he will come and join the video conference. But actually he joined

01:18half an hour before that. He did not wait for us to give a queue and he was there holding the

01:24tricolour waving at when it landed and chairman ISRO announced that we are successful and India

01:34is on moon. So immediately he did not even wait for chairman to announce. He was clapping and

01:43waving the flag and when it was time for him to speak he appreciated everybody's effort

01:54for achieving this and apologised for not being with us in person and he said that

02:00available earliest opportunity he will come and meet us in person. He did come on 26th early

02:08morning. He came to the control centre. He was supposed to come at around 6 o'clock in the

02:16morning and as per protocol everybody has to be inside the campus at least 2 hours before.

02:24So all our people came in at 4 o'clock and we were all waiting. This time when he was talking

02:31he was a bit emotional also. He was actually apologising telling that he gave trouble to us

02:41by making us come early morning at 4 o'clock and thanking all of us for being there and

02:49appreciated the effort. He was very clear that we have to involve

02:59people other than government agencies in the space activities.

03:04That is what finally resulted in the space sector reforms also.

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