Not just space: How ISRO is touching many facets of our everyday life

Why spend so much money and effort to reach the moon when there is still so much poverty in India? This and similar questions often come up when India’s space ambitions are talked about.
At a press conference soon after the Mars orbiter launch in 2013, a foreign journalist asked the same question: why should India send a mission to Mars when millions are in poverty? Then Isro Chairman K Radhakrishnan told him about the benefits of the space programme, but the journalist persisted with his argument. Many might raise the same question about Chandrayaan-3, India’s third lunar spacecraft, which is scheduled to land on the Moon today.