India launches five foreign satellites, Modi pitches for SAARC
30 Jun 2014 11:25 PM IST
Modi, who stayed overnight at ISRO, said he was happy to come across four generations of scientists, including those from the days of Aryabhatta satellite and said it gave a 'family-like' environment at the spaceport. A tech-savvy leader, the Prime Minister made a strong pitch for the use of space technology in daily life, making it clear that it was not confined to the elite and the laboratory achievements could be replicated into daily life applications.
This would transform the lives of crores of people and assured the scientists that their work will benefit the common man, he said. He in particular cited the GIS-enabled watershed programme and asked the scientists to come up with space applications for land-records and other governance issues. 'Satellite technology has made distance irrelevant. It effectively enables us to reach the unreached, helps us connect virtually where physical connection is difficult,' he said.
Modi also stressed on the need for strengthening of international partnership in space technology while batting for linking more Indian universities and colleges through satellite technology.
This would transform the lives of crores of people and assured the scientists that their work will benefit the common man, he said. He in particular cited the GIS-enabled watershed programme and asked the scientists to come up with space applications for land-records and other governance issues. 'Satellite technology has made distance irrelevant. It effectively enables us to reach the unreached, helps us connect virtually where physical connection is difficult,' he said.
Modi also stressed on the need for strengthening of international partnership in space technology while batting for linking more Indian universities and colleges through satellite technology.
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