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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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                                           to Pawan Goenka talk about
                                           the opportunities for India's
                                           private sector in Space
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