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Pawan Goenka
Chairman, IN-SPACe
The Prime Minister, through how IN-SPACe is supporting such
'Mann ki Baat' address, gives start-ups.
a lot of encouragement to
The Prime Minister himself is
people. The way he talks to the
common citizens (through this the brand ambassador of IN-
programme) has a very deep SPACe. More than 80 applications
impact. What he talked about have arrived and this number
IN-SPACe and start-ups has is increasing continuously. The
greatly encouraged our team mention of IN-SPACe in 'Mann ki
and start-ups. The start-ups that Baat' is increasing the curiosity
the Prime Minister mentioned among more people and I
are on cloud nine because they
believe we will be overloaded with
never imagined that the Prime
Minister would take their name applications in the coming days.
in front of the whole country. When the Prime Minister came
Mehsana's Tanvi, mentioned in to inaugurate IN-SPACe, he not
the programme, has become a only came here and saw the work
hero in her school today; all the
of start-ups, but he also took an
kids want to talk to her.
interest in what they are doing
Information about space is very and what more they can do and
limited among common people how it will affect the country.
and through 'Mann ki Baat'
These are small things, but the
the Prime Minister told us how impact they have is very deep.
important space is in our life. He
The Prime Minister has taken
talked about how much more
work can be done in this area, upon himself the responsibility
which may not have been done of spreading the word of space
so far, and how the start-ups across the country and I think it is
are working in this direction and making a big difference.
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