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Company for space business

The government has decided to float a company for carrying out commercial activities of the Department of Space foreseeing a huge business potential. The Central government has decided to set up a new company under Department of Space(DoS),to commercially exploit the research and development work carried out by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Centers and constituent units of DOS. There are many areas and avenues that provide opportunities for commercial exploitation of ISRO programmes, which can be tapped when it gets a company with corporate shape. The new company can take license from DoS and ISRO and sub-license to industries and can transfer small satellite technology to industry. The entity also can manufacture small satellite launch vehicle (SLV) in collaboration with t...

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Economic sense behind Swachh Bharat

Beneficial works, benefits for business and labourer's The Swachh Bharat Mission, besides triggering business growth in two segments construction materials and hygiene products is considered the world's largest behaviour change programme. This change makes the mission meaningful as the people take home the benefits of the work. On August 15, 2014, in his first independence day address, the Prime Minister gave a clarion call to the nation to fight filth and open defecation, change old habits and achieve a Swachh Bharat by 2019, to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary is on – with clean India, as dreamt by one of India's greatest men. Since August 2014 the things have worked well. Entire Indian has joined...

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