Lalit Shastri

Over the years and in public interest, Newsroom24x7 has been following closely the working and performance of the Space Headquarters that they prefer to call ISRO, and also different Centres linked with India’s Space Programme and working under Department of Space.

The present dispensation virtually scuttled the privatisation move and issued just an expression of interest in 2019. It has also closed the small satellite program and virtually killed most of the societal applications. In this backdrop, the present ISRO leadership is falsely trying to take the credit for the reform process set in motion by the Cabinet presided by Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday.

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Newsroom24x7.com is edited by Lalit Shastri. He is is an Indian journalist, columnist, wildlife film maker, birder, and environmentalist. He is a former Principal Correspondent of The Hindu and a Special Correspondent of The Asian Age - two of India's leading English newspapers. He quit a corporate job to investigate the causes leading to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and subsequently became a full-time journalist. He has extensively covered from ground zero for The Hindu, the riots that followed the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya and repeated attacks by Naxalite-Maoists in the Central Indian States of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. View all posts by Newsroom24x7 Network