Bengaluru, August 26: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Mission Operations Complex of the Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) here on Saturday morning to encourage scientists after the success of Chandrayaan-3.
Here he met ISRO chief S. Somnath and other scientists. Prime Minister Modi congratulated him on the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission.
Prime Minister Modi arrived in Bengaluru in the morning, soon after returning from an official trip to South Africa and Greece. Earlier, the Prime Minister gave the slogan ‘Jai Vigyan, Jai Anusandhan’.
Outside the HAL airport here, PM Modi said, ‘I could not restrain myself, as I was not in the country, but I decided to go to Bengaluru and meet my scientists first on reaching home soon after the tour.’ The Prime Minister also greeted the people gathered outside the airport.
Prime Minister Modi wrote on his official X handle, I am looking forward to interacting with the extraordinary ISRO scientists who made India proud with the success of Chandrayaan-3. Their dedication and passion are indeed the driving forces behind our country’s achievements in the space sector.’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also raised the slogans Jai Jawan, Jai Vigyan, and Jai Anusandhan from the crowd gathered outside the airport. He said that the scene that I am seeing here today, I also saw in Greece and Johannesburg. In every corner of the world, not only Indians, but people who believe in science, who see the future, and who are dedicated to humanity, are full of such zeal and enthusiasm.