Indian Scientists have proved to the world that Himalayan tasks can be achieved with little resources; Dr. Bidve
KALABURAGI; The Vice Chancellor of the Sharnbasva University Prof Anilkumar Bidve has said that by successfully landing chandrayaan 3 on the surface of the moon the Indian space scientists have proved to the world that they can overcome many hurdles and with little available resources they can achieve Himalayan tasks with relative ease.
Speaking at the National Space Day 2024 in a function organized by the Mechanical Department in the main campus of the Sharnbasva University on Friday commemorating the first anniversary of the Indian Spacecraft Chandrayan Three making its successful soft landing on the surface of the moon and becoming the fourth country in the world to be successful to land on the surface of the moon on this day last year, Dr Bidve commended the efforts of the Indian Space Scientists achieving the success of landing on the surface of the moon in their second attempt.
He said that unfortunate crash landing of the Chandrayan II on the surface of the moon did not deter the scientists in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and they converted the lessons learnt in the failure of the first attempt to make a soft landing on the moon’s surface in the very next attempt, which is not a mean achievement.
Prof Bidve pointed out that in the initial years of space exploration the ISRO was denied of the technical knowhow by the countries like USA which had made rapid progress in the space technology and with limited resources and available manpower the scientists of the ISRO have made India proud before the World by successfully launching the Chandrayan 3 and proving that the space travel was much cheaper than the normal land and air travel.
He said that India overcame the problem of the highly competent Engineers from prestigious institutions like IITs and other centres of higher studies who preferred the green pastures available in foreign countries and institutions like NASA to explore their talents and with the available manpower from the normal engineering colleges showed to the world that engineers produced in the normal engineering colleges were no less talented than that of the products from IITs and other prestigious centres of higher learning. “98 per cent of the manpower including scientists working in ISRO were not from the IITs or other centres of higher education but the engineers and technocrats from the normal engineering colleges”.
Prof Bidve urged the student audience to emulate the scientists working in the ISRO and shape their professional future in the organizations like ISRO and involve themselves in the nation building activities instead of looking for green pastures elsewhere outside the country. Registrar of the University Dr S G Dollegoudar also spoke on the occasion.
Earlier, the students who won different competitions organized as part of the National Space Day were honoured and given certificates of appreciation. (EOM)