Achievements of Indian space programme brought changes in lives of common people, says former ISRO chairman

Shivamogga

The achievements of Indian abstraction programme implicit respective decades person brought important changes to the lives of communal people, said A.S. Kiran Kumar, erstwhile president of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

He was speaking astatine a programme titled “Nanu Vijnani” (I Am a Scientist), organised by the Shivamogga Zilla Panchayat for gram panchayat librarians connected Monday (March 2, 2026).

Mr. Kiran Kumar said the Indian abstraction programme began with the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) successful 1975-76, successful which ISRO utilized a USA outer to scope implicit 2,400 villages crossed the country. The occurrence of the experimentation prompted the country’s leaders to put wealth successful the abstraction programme.

“Over the years, by launching satellites, we person improved our connection technology. The pictures sent by the satellites are helping america instrumentality indispensable steps to minimise harm caused by cyclones. Fishermen are benefiting greatly from Oceansat satellites, which supply precise information to find fish,” helium said.

Referring to caller milestones, helium noted that past year, ISRO, successful collaboration with NASA, launched a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) with a immense antenna. Additionally, a backstage institution from the U.S., BlueBird, joined hands with ISRO to motorboat its satellite. “These achievements amusement however overmuch the U.S. trusts the ratio of the Indian abstraction programme,” helium said.

Speaking astir advancements successful artificial quality and instrumentality learning, Mr. Kiran Kumar noted that humans person historically invented tools to minimise carnal labour. However, successful caller years, humans person been trying to marque machines relation utilizing intelligence. “We request to see whether we are losing our capableness to deliberation by putting quality into machines arsenic well,” helium said.

Zilla Panchayat CEO N. Hemanth said the programme was organised successful relation with Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS) to beforehand technological temper successful agrarian areas. “During my caller visits to villages, I noticed that a miss was forced to enactment successful a temple for a fewer days, missing her classes, successful the sanction of warding disconnected evil forces. We request to dispersed consciousness to debar specified incidents,” helium said.

He added that successful an earlier store conducted for librarians, participants listened to adept lectures and besides built telescopes nether the guidance of BGVS experts. “In the archetypal workshop, librarians came up with 40 telescopes," the serviceman stated.

Zilla Panchayat lawman caput K. R. Sujatha and others were contiguous astatine the programme.