Nehru’s imaginative and prescient of self-reliance behind Indian area exploration success, says Congress

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday mentioned it was Nehru’s imaginative and prescient of constructing India self-reliant within the area area, and his determination to not align with the good powers regardless of criticism, which has now yielded such wealthy dividends in area exploration.

Congress chief Jairam Ramesh mentioned there was a whole lot of commentary in Pakistan’s media on the excellent achievements of ISRO with a lament that the company made such massive strides although Pakistan’s area company SUPARCO was arrange in late 1961, just a few months earlier than India’s INCOSPAR in February 1962.

“What is not recognised is that from day 1 Nehru stressed SELF-RELIANCE, even as there were some voices in Delhi advocating greater American involvement and some others pleading for closer cooperation with the Soviets,” Ramesh mentioned on X.

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He mentioned first Nehru, after which Indira Gandhi after him, had been clear that the area programme needed to be designed, managed, and executed by Indian professionals within the civil area.

In this, they had been after all guided and influenced by Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan, P N Haksar and plenty of others, the Congress chief mentioned.

“The basis and huge infrastructure for science and expertise created within the Nehruvian period, was completed within the face of trenchant criticism, that being an especially poor nation India may ill-afford such investments.

“Yet it is the vision of a self-reliant and scientifically advanced nation that yielded such rich dividends,” Ramesh asserted.

There has been a lot remark in Pakistan’s media on ISRO’s excellent achievements whereas bomoaning the truth that Pakistan’s area company SUPARCO was arrange in late 1961, just a few months earlier than India’s INCOSPAR in Feb 1962.

What isn’t recognised is that from day 1 Nehru pressured…

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) August 26, 2023

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday mentioned it was Nehru’s imaginative and prescient of constructing India self-reliant within the area area, and his determination to not align with the good powers regardless of criticism, which has now yielded such wealthy dividends in area exploration.

Congress chief Jairam Ramesh mentioned there was a whole lot of commentary in Pakistan’s media on the excellent achievements of ISRO with a lament that the company made such massive strides although Pakistan’s area company SUPARCO was arrange in late 1961, just a few months earlier than India’s INCOSPAR in February 1962.

“What is not recognised is that from day 1 Nehru stressed SELF-RELIANCE, even as there were some voices in Delhi advocating greater American involvement and some others pleading for closer cooperation with the Soviets,” Ramesh mentioned on X.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

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He mentioned first Nehru, after which Indira Gandhi after him, had been clear that the area programme needed to be designed, managed, and executed by Indian professionals within the civil area.

In this, they had been after all guided and influenced by Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan, P N Haksar and plenty of others, the Congress chief mentioned.

“The basis and huge infrastructure for science and expertise created within the Nehruvian period, was completed within the face of trenchant criticism, that being an especially poor nation India may ill-afford such investments.

“Yet it is the vision of a self-reliant and scientifically advanced nation that yielded such rich dividends,” Ramesh asserted.

There has been a lot remark in Pakistan’s media on ISRO’s excellent achievements whereas bomoaning the truth that Pakistan’s area company SUPARCO was arrange in late 1961, just a few months earlier than India’s INCOSPAR in Feb 1962.
What isn’t recognised is that from day 1 Nehru pressured…
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) August 26, 2023