Application of Advanced Technology in Space
Activities
The major achievements
of using the IRS and INSAT satellite systems for socio-economic
development of India are:
Satellite based Tele-education
programme to spread education at all levels in the
country.
Satellite based Tele-Medicine programme
to provide health care for remote/rural areas.
Setting up of Village Resource
Centres to provide space based services to the rural
community.
Satellite based services for Broadcasting,
Business Communications, Data Communications, Remote
area Communications, Emergency Communications and
Mobile Communications.
Satellite based meteorological data for improved
weather services.
Natural Resource management applications
– Waste land mapping, locating sources of drinking
water, forecasting agricultural output, advisories
of potential fishing zones, Forestry Management, Bio-diversity
characterization of bio rich areas of the country,
snow melt run off estimations, land and water resource
development.
The Indian Launch Vehicle & Satellite
technologies are state-of-the-art and are on par with
the technologies of the developed countries.
This information was given by the
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office
and Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Shri
Prithviraj Chavan, in a written reply to a question
by Shri G. Karunakara Reddy in the Lok Sabha today.
