Raipur, February 02, 2011
After receiving a degree, the students enter into a new phase of their life and face formidable challenge in the world but they face it by virtue of the knowledge they acquire from their academic institution. But in the outer world, three significant factors forms the basis of success – how we think, how we act and what we believe in. The words of inspiration were uttered by chairman of Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) Dr DK Radhakrishnan to the students who received their graduation, post graduation and PhD degrees during the 17th convocation ceremony of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) on Wednesday.
He asked the students to first do self-analyse and identify their Achilles’ heel before taking any major step. “If you have eight hours to chop a tree, take six hours to sharpen your axe,” he said.
“Convocations are milestones that recognise not only the accomplishment of a significant goal, but also the promise of an exciting future,” he said. He wished that the students would prominently work on the key technical, social and environmental issues of the country during their career span. “We make a living by what we earn, but we make a life by what we contribute,” he said.
He informed how the father of Indian space programme – Dr Vikram Sarabhai envisioned a meaningful role for space science and technology in finding solution to the problems of a common man and society as a whole some five decades ago. “Our endeavours are quite in contrast to approaches pursued by the other space-faring nations,” he said.
“Dr Sarabhai’s vision echoes the core values that ISRO has enshrined in its management philosophy and governance structure, while engaging itself in a quite challenging domain of space technology involving complex and large, high technology systems that are required to function in unforgiving space environment that are often unpredictable or less understood,” he said.
He further said that the India’s space-based programmes are focused on food & water security, weather & climate, environment & ecosystem, education & health care, skill development, rural communication, infrastructure development, disaster management support, smart governance and sustainable development.
He informed that India has become a leading space-faring nation across the world in terms of technological capability and capacity. “Our operational launch vehicle - PSLV has 16 successive successful missions. The PSLV had also launched 25 satellites for foreign customers by far,” Dr Radhakrishnan said.
He informed that the ISRO had also successfully launched some communication and weather satellites for the country into geostationary orbit with GSLV and is planning for future to induct the Indian cryogenic stage. “Under a commercial alliance, we have also built two communication satellites for European agencies,” he informed.
“Our Chandrayaan-1 discovered presence of water and hydroxyl molecules in the lunar environment and sub-surface water ice in the permanently shadowed crates of the lunar north pole,” he said.
The ace scientist said Chhattisgarh is rich in culture, forest and natural resources. Remembering his younger days he said he would never forget the performances of state’s renowned artiste Teejan Bai at national and global arenas. “In fact, she became the global face of Pandwani,” he said.
Dr Radhakrishnan informed that the ISRO has successfully implemented some of its flagship programmes pertaining to natural resources management in Chhattisgarh through RESOURCENET and CARTOSAT date. To properly manage the forests of Chhattisgarh, the ISRO’s Forest Management Information System provided the required information through satellite. “Besides, the organisation developed a comprehensive Natural Resources database with information system to facilitate decision making up to village level for projects being utilised by several governmental schemes including Sarva Gramin Rojgar Yojana (SGRY), Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), infrastructure, Aanganbadi, education medical, PWD, etc,” he informed.
“The ISRO also developed village maps for more than 20000 villages to provide digital database on a GIS platform to the state under e-governance services for Land Records Department,” he said. “Similarly, many projects related to geological exploration for minerals have been undertaken in the state using remote sensing images,” he added.
After receiving a degree, the students enter into a new phase of their life and face formidable challenge in the world but they face it by virtue of the knowledge they acquire from their academic institution. But in the outer world, three significant factors forms the basis of success – how we think, how we act and what we believe in. The words of inspiration were uttered by chairman of Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) Dr DK Radhakrishnan to the students who received their graduation, post graduation and PhD degrees during the 17th convocation ceremony of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (RSU) on Wednesday.
He asked the students to first do self-analyse and identify their Achilles’ heel before taking any major step. “If you have eight hours to chop a tree, take six hours to sharpen your axe,” he said.
“Convocations are milestones that recognise not only the accomplishment of a significant goal, but also the promise of an exciting future,” he said. He wished that the students would prominently work on the key technical, social and environmental issues of the country during their career span. “We make a living by what we earn, but we make a life by what we contribute,” he said.
He informed how the father of Indian space programme – Dr Vikram Sarabhai envisioned a meaningful role for space science and technology in finding solution to the problems of a common man and society as a whole some five decades ago. “Our endeavours are quite in contrast to approaches pursued by the other space-faring nations,” he said.
“Dr Sarabhai’s vision echoes the core values that ISRO has enshrined in its management philosophy and governance structure, while engaging itself in a quite challenging domain of space technology involving complex and large, high technology systems that are required to function in unforgiving space environment that are often unpredictable or less understood,” he said.
He further said that the India’s space-based programmes are focused on food & water security, weather & climate, environment & ecosystem, education & health care, skill development, rural communication, infrastructure development, disaster management support, smart governance and sustainable development.
He informed that India has become a leading space-faring nation across the world in terms of technological capability and capacity. “Our operational launch vehicle - PSLV has 16 successive successful missions. The PSLV had also launched 25 satellites for foreign customers by far,” Dr Radhakrishnan said.
He informed that the ISRO had also successfully launched some communication and weather satellites for the country into geostationary orbit with GSLV and is planning for future to induct the Indian cryogenic stage. “Under a commercial alliance, we have also built two communication satellites for European agencies,” he informed.
“Our Chandrayaan-1 discovered presence of water and hydroxyl molecules in the lunar environment and sub-surface water ice in the permanently shadowed crates of the lunar north pole,” he said.
The ace scientist said Chhattisgarh is rich in culture, forest and natural resources. Remembering his younger days he said he would never forget the performances of state’s renowned artiste Teejan Bai at national and global arenas. “In fact, she became the global face of Pandwani,” he said.
Dr Radhakrishnan informed that the ISRO has successfully implemented some of its flagship programmes pertaining to natural resources management in Chhattisgarh through RESOURCENET and CARTOSAT date. To properly manage the forests of Chhattisgarh, the ISRO’s Forest Management Information System provided the required information through satellite. “Besides, the organisation developed a comprehensive Natural Resources database with information system to facilitate decision making up to village level for projects being utilised by several governmental schemes including Sarva Gramin Rojgar Yojana (SGRY), Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), infrastructure, Aanganbadi, education medical, PWD, etc,” he informed.
“The ISRO also developed village maps for more than 20000 villages to provide digital database on a GIS platform to the state under e-governance services for Land Records Department,” he said. “Similarly, many projects related to geological exploration for minerals have been undertaken in the state using remote sensing images,” he added.
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