Space sector reforms have provided an “enabling milieu” for progress in India’s space programme, placing India as a frontline nation, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said in Thiruvananthapurm on November 25.
Inaugurating the 60th anniversary celebrations of the first sounding rocket launch from Thumba, which marked the beginning of the nation’s space programme in 1963, Mr. Singh said that prior to the reforms, ISRO was “shrouded in a veil of secrecy, a self-imposed barrier.”
The opening up of the sector has ensured the entry of space technology into “every household in the last two years,” he said. Funding and knowledge partnerships have increased with the entry of the private sector. The reforms have also given a sense of involvement to each and every citizen of India.
