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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

ISRO clarifies: No plan to privatise space agency, role to remain central

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has clarified that there is no move to privatise the space agency or diminish its role amid ongoing space-sector reforms, calling such reports and speculation "baseless and incorrect".

ISRO will continue to remain India's principal institution for advanced space research and technology development, national and strategic missions, space science and exploration, and critical and frontier space capabilities, it said.

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