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