On Saturday, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) women scientists who were working on the “Chandrayaan-3” project interacted with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who praised them for their crucial contribution to the successful conclusion of India’s first lunar landing mission.
On August 26, days after the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft made a successful landing on the moon, the Prime Minister travelled to Bengaluru to offer his congratulations to the ISRO crew.
PM Modi is seen in a video introducing himself to and conversing with female scientists at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) and sharing it on X (previously Twitter), according to news agency ANI. S Somanath, the director of ISRO, is seated next to the prime minister.
On Wednesday evening, India became the first nation to successfully deploy a lander on the unexplored lunar South Pole. (PM Modi’s visit to ISRO is LIVE)
On Saturday, PM Modi addressed the scientists gathered at the ISRO’s Telemetry Tracking and Command Network Mission Control Complex in Bengaluru. He noted that “Women scientists played a crucial part in the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission. Future generations will be motivated to pursue science seriously and use it for the benefit of society by the “Shivkshakti” point (the location on the lunar South Pole where the “Vikram” lander touched down). The welfare of the people remains our top priority, Prime Minister Modi declared amid thunderous applause.
While giving an address at ISRO, PM Modi also emphasised the “crucial role” that women scientists played in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. “This mission’s female scientists have been instrumental in making it successful. This accomplishment just would not have been feasible without their assistance. Future generations will be inspired by them, he claimed.
In addition to this, PM Modi made a number of announcements, including renaming the location of Chandrayaan-3’s lunar landing site as “Tiranga Point.” He added that India had decided to give the location of the Moon’s Vikram lander’s crash on Chandrayaan-2 a name.
“You [the ISRO scientists] raised the nation to unprecedented heights. It was not a typical accomplishment, the prime minister noted.
“This trip highlights the effectiveness of our space research and programme. In his remarks at the ISRO’s Bengaluru headquarters, PM Modi also stated that “India is on the moon.”
The toughest problems the world suffers in the twenty-first century will have a solution thanks to the Bharat of today, said PM Modi.
Not only did everyone at the ISRO explode in raucous joy as our lander touched down on the lunar surface, but so did citizens throughout the nation and abroad. Who could ever forget that? he questioned.
“Some moments are too important to ever forget. One such occasion was the lunar landing, said PM Modi. PM Modi was welcomed warmly when he arrived at the ISRO headquarters earlier on Saturday. He greeted the scientific team working on the third lunar mission for his country and was photographed hugging ISRO director S. Somanath.
He lifted the sign “Jai Vigyan Jai Anusandhan (Glory to Science, Glory to Research)” as soon as he touched down at Bengaluru’s HAL airport.
