ISRO Clarifies: No Plan to Privatise Space Agency, Role to Remain Central
ISRO said private participation will expand mature technologies and manufacturing while the agency keeps leading advanced research and strategic missions.
- IN-SPACe Chairman Pawan K Goenka stated on Sunday that the Indian Space Research Organisation remains the "bedrock of Indian space sector," emphasizing its role is "by no means diminishing" amid privatization speculation.
- Goenka addressed what he described as a "misleading narrative" in the media regarding the agency's future, calling such speculation "baseless and incorrect" and denying any move to privatize ISRO.
- ISRO will continue focusing on advanced space research, human spaceflight, and deep-space missions, while mature technologies and routine satellites scale through Industry and PSUs via competitive processes.
- Reforms aim for ecosystem expansion and capability multiplication rather than privatization, enabling private firms and academic institutions to participate across the space value chain while ISRO retains its strategic mandate.
- The transition establishes an "ISRO-led national space ecosystem" where the agency retains its core scientific mandate, positioning it to lead frontier research and next-generation missions toward India's Space Vision 2047.
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