Agency won't be privatised or its role diminished: Isro
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has officially denied rumors that it will be privatized or that its role will be diminished. The agency clarified that private sector participation is intended to scale the industry while allowing ISRO to focus on advanced research and strategic missions.
Why it matters
As India expands its space sector, clarifying the relationship between state-led research and private industry is critical for national policy and international space partnerships.
NEW DELHI: Allaying fears of some of its staff that the organisation will be privatised and its role reduced to an R&D lab, Isro on Sunday dismissed “speculations and misinformation” about any diminution of its role, calling such reports “baseless and incorrect”. “We wish to categorically state that Isro will neither be privatised nor will its importance be diminished,” the space agency said.Isro further said it “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”.Space promoter and regulator Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (INSPACe) chairman Pawan Goenka also said on Sunday that Isro “will remain the bedrock of Indian space sector” and it will remain at the core of India’s space programme leading frontier research and the next generation of national space programmes like space station and crewed lunar…
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