New Delhi: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be awarded for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014. The award will be given for its contribution in strengthening international cooperation in peaceful use of outer space.
The award jury, chaired by vice president Hamid Ansari, made the announcement on Wednesday.
A statement said, “The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development is awarded to the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) in recognition of its path-breaking achievement, culminating in the Mars orbiter mission, its significant contribution in strengthening international cooperation in peaceful use of outer space.”
The pioneering role of ISRO had been too noticed by jury in the application of advanced technologies in promoting broad-based and sustainable social and economic development and addressing basic needs of the people particularly in remote and rural areas of the country.
ISRO had reflected the Indian scientists and talents can be harnessed to international level, catching up with more advanced nations in a highly technical and sophisticated field, it said.
The statement also said, “It has shown how true self-reliance is, often working in adverse circumstances when it was denied adequate access to the latest research and development elsewhere.”
Bureau Report
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