ISRO Chairman Inaugurates ISRO-Academia Connect Symposium At MANIT

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The role of academic institutions to support the research in space science, according to the needs of the country, said Chairman of ISRO, V Narayanan.

He was speaking at ISRO-Academia Connect Symposium, inaugurated by him virtually at MANIT on Thursday.

In order to promote the innovations and applications in the field of Cutting Edge Space Technology, the symposium was organised in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Recently, ISRO established six Space Technology Incubation Centers (S-TIC) in the country, to promote space science research in academic institutions.

One of the STIC is established at MANIT Bhopal for the Centre Region to cover MP, Chhattisgarh and UP state, said by Savita Nema, founder Coordinator Space Technology Incubation Centre at MANIT.

Around 200 academicians from the technical institutions of MP and 25 Scientists of ISRO attended the symposium. Fifteen technical talks by various unit heads of ISRO were delivered in three technical sessions in the symposium, in which scientists from ISRO presented the cutting edge research areas in the field of Space Technology, where academicians can play pivotal roles.