Unlocking Space Sector For Private Players Will Help India On Global Level: Jitendra Singh

Unlocking the space sector for private industry, cabinet approvals for geospatial guidelines, drone policy and stress on the blue economy will propel India among the top five nations in the world in the next decade, said Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh on Tuesday. 

While interacting with media in Nagpur amid the Indian Science Congress, Singh said that India is determined to live upto global benchmarks to be able to play a global role in years to come. 

He said that in the last eight and a half years, India has scaled many new heights in science, technology and innovation and taken bold decisions like unlocking the space sector to allow the private industry to realise the full potential of the aviation ecosystem. 

The minister informed that India has reached the 40th position in the Global Innovation Index ranking 2022, third in World Research Publications and third in the new startup ecosystem. 

By the year 2050, it is estimated that our global population will likely reach 9 billion people and we have to ensure that every single one of these people will be able to enjoy a substantial quality of life without being detrimental to our natural resources and environment, Sigh added. 

He said, "Sustainable development can be said to be a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.