The Chandrayan - the moon mission of india - was initiated by A B Vajpayee, when he was PM and took almost a decade to fructify and cost the country a fortune. Though the project did not complete its mission fully, it did manage to send volumnious data while it worked. Sadly, it seems, Indians dont find any use for this data. Former ISRO chief, Dr.Madhavan Nair has told in an interview that “We have a huge volume of data running into several terrabytes. Indian scientists have to wake up and chew on that". He further stated that 80 Indian universities were approached by ISRO to respond to study grants that would have brought in the data analysis experts, but only four universities responded. “We want to encourage Indian scientists to come forward to work on this, but there is a shortage.” We can guess what will happen. The data will be archived and end up in the dustbin and a few thousand crores goes down the drain, along with it the hard work, sweat and toil of many scientists and engineers. Another dream turned sour due to our complacency.
By the way, why didnt the government 'think' of how to analyze the data in the first place. They had 10 years to plan or did they they think that the mission would never take off???
