ISRO To Scale Up Outsourcing To Private Sector

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ISRO officials said new industries are being identified for taking up work related to ground as well as space segments. They said the DoS industry policy continues to be driven by the need to encourage greater participation by industries, thereby allowing itself to concentrate on core areas of research and development.

by Staff Writers
Bangalore, India (SPX) Apr 02, 2007
India's space agency ISRO will step up outsourcing of works related to satellite and rocket building to the private sector, which in the long run could churn out overall systems as the organisation focuses on research and development.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair expects the role of the private sector in Indian space programmes to grow over a period of time.

"Yes, in the last 10 years we have not added even a single person to ISRO... our programmes have multiplied by more than three-fold. That shows industrial participation has come to that extent", Nair said.

DoS has associated more than 500 small, medium and large scale industries and so far transferred 279 technologies to industries for commercialisation and undertaken 270 consultancies in various fields.

"They (industries) are taking more and more load of the production, testing and so on", Nair said. "In the long-run, I am sure some major industries will pitch in to build the overall systems itself."

According to Nair, about 60 per cent of the work in launch vehicle (rocket) area and 30 per cent in satellite building space in India are done by the industries.

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