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Telangana to formulate space-tech policy framework
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Feb, 2021
With a vision to make Telangana a commercial hub for all space-related
products and services, the state government has decided to formulate a
space-tech policy framework.
The policy aims to push domestic
production of launch vehicles, satellite systems and sub-systems and
ground equipment manufacturing.
State's Principal Secretary,
Industry and Commerce, Jayesh Ranjan, said on Sunday that Telangana is
creating a holistic framework to develop end-to-end spacetech ecosystem
in the state and attempt to capture the emerging global opportunities in
space-related investments and innovations.
This can potentially
create a trickle-down impact on other areas of innovation such as
universal connectivity and big data analytics for agriculture, remote
education, disaster management, he said.
Equal emphasis would be
given to downstream applications of remote sensing that have the
potential to solve real-life problems in agriculture, disaster
management, insurance, urban flood modeling and forestry.
The
Centre's Department of Space recently released the draft Spacecom policy
2020 and draft SpaceRS policy 2020. Officials said states can
significantly contribute to achieving the national objectives like
"Atmanirbhar Bharat".
Telangana is already home to several
renowned start-ups such as Skyroot, Dhruva and other major companies in
the spacetech sector. The city has collocated facilities of the Defence
Research and Development Organisation, the National Remote Sensing
Centre, the Advanced Data Processing Research Institute, the Defence
Research & Development Laboratory, the Research Centre Imarat, the
Bharat Dynamics Ltd, the Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd, the Ordnance Factory
Board, the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, and the Advanced
Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials.
To
formulate Telangana's spacetech policy framework, the state government
held a virtual consultation. It invited stakeholders like hardware
start-ups, analytics start-ups and academia to share their insights
during a virtual stakeholder consultation. Uma Maheshwaran, Scientific
Secretary, ISRO HQs, and Dr Ravi Kumar, Director, NRSC) also attended
the event.
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