When there is no electricity almost anywhere in the country, when there are more potholes than roads, when 700 million people pass stool on the roadside, when if you do not have money you die! When public education is a joke, when scores of babies die every year of diarrhea, when scores of women die during or soon after pregnancy. And and and on on on.....
India is looking at the moon! Maybe it is the only way, as looking down is very depressing!
YS rupa
India set for mission to moon
Maya Sharma
Sunday, December 16, 2007 (Byalalu)
India's unmanned mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1 is all set for launch in April 2008.
The ground infrastructure for the mission is being set up by Indian Space Research Organization, (ISRO), in the rural outskirts of Bangalore. And now, installation of a giant antenna is complete and it is all set to begin performance tests.
Now, three years after deciding that this was the spot, a 32 metre diameter antenna has been installed. This portion of the project will cost Rs 100 crore out of Chandrayaan's total project cost of 386 crores -(100 million dollars).
3 comments:
You are right. It took nearly 6 hours on the potholed
road from Delhi in September to reach Mathura
and Vrindaban which are 3 hours away. The road tax
collections were not treated as a joke by my driver.
Those directly leading into the cities were collected by young men in no uniforms who were lying on
charpais under a tree accompanied by their non-working friends. Corruption and disgrace are two
words that filled our conversation. However, the potholes on the road to Agra are even bigger!
100 million dollars would feed a lot of starving children...
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