vIndianz.com (Aug. 25, 2009) — The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) at Valiyamala in Thiruvananthapuram, through video conferencing from New Delhi.
The Prime Minister also laid the foundation for a new space complex of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO), by tele-link, at Sadiqnagar in New Delhi.
The IIST has been conceived as the world’s first space university and will offer a complete range of academic programmes from the undergraduate to the post graduate level,” IST director B.N. Suresh said.
The new space complex in New Delhi would help the ISRO in its endeavours to popularise space technology’s people-oriented and development-oriented services such as tele-medicine, tele-education, disaster management and village resource management in the northern parts of the country, ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair said.
He also distributed Awards to ISRO Scientists for their outstanding contribution.
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Awesome news. Congrats India.