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Notes Some of the remarkable achievements in the field of science and technology over last 50 years
are listed as below:

1. India's own satellites have soared into space on rockets developed by Indian scientists
indigenously.
2. Indian super-computers confront the most complex strategic and civilian challenges.
Biotechnologists have produced the first leprosy vaccine.
3. Alternative energy technologies are transforming life in isolated villages.

4. When India initiated a space research programme, the world scoffed, and critics declared
that such research had no relevance in a poor and underdeveloped country.
India is, today, one of only seven nations in the world with its own satellite launch
capabilities.
5. Development of remote sensing and communication satellites that encompasses

(a) Mastery of solid propulsion fuels
(b) Development of cryogenic engines
(c) Development of closed loop control and guidance system
(d) Development of strap-on staging satellite launch technologies.

6. Satellite monitoring of earth-atmosphere-ocean systems has revolutionised the forecasting
and management of natural disasters. High speed computers run sophisticated
mathematical models to forecast extremes of weather, saving thousands of lives every
year.

7. Atomic research in India dates back to the 1940s, and by 1956 it bore fruit in Asia's first
nuclear reactor, Apsara. Today, India has an installed capacity of 1,840 megawatts of
atomic power, and possesses the potential for setting up a thorium based generating
capacity of 200,000 Gigawatt years of electric energy. In the process, Indian atomic scientists
have successfully mastered the entire atomic fuel cycle and production of atomic materials.
8. India has developed three indigenous diagnostic kits for the detection of AIDS.
9. A sophisticated liposome delivery system for drugs to cure fungal infections.

10. Diagnostic kits for tuberculosis, Hepatitis-B, A & C, kala azar, and Japanese Encephalitis in
an advanced state of development.

11. A wide range of bio-fertilizers and biological control agents to supplement and reduce the
use of harmful chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Developments in drugs, therapeutics,
medicine and the wider field of health services have resulted in the doubling of life
expectancy since Independence.

12. Dreaded diseases such as smallpox have been completely eradicated.
13. Defence research organisations have excelled in the development of missiles, and India is
more secure because of the wide range of tactical missiles now available to the defence
forces.
14. A sophisticated low-level warning radar, Indra, has been developed

15. Multi-barrel rocket system Pinaka has been developed.
16. India has its own battle tanks: Arjun and Ajeya.

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