According to Agence France-Presse reported on September 9, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh defended India's annual capital investment in the space program in the 9th. The India domestic questioned, because many people are still living in extreme poverty in the country, the government spends millions of dollars for space exploration plan unreasonable.
"Sometimes people will ask whether a poor country like India can afford a space program, these costs - albeit a modest one, whether it can be better used in other aspects." Singh said in a speech in the 9th . "The idea is to ignore the point: a country's development status, the final product or its technological strength."
"India is proud of our space scientists. Them to overcome enormous difficulties to create world-class facilities, and research and development of advanced technology." Singh said.
Singh is in the southern part of the country's security, Andhra Pradesh published the speech. The same day, he here witnessed the 100th space launch mission carried out in India. In this task, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, the success of two foreign commercial satellite into space.
Agence France-Presse reported that India plans to send probes to Mars orbit next year are expected to cost 40 to 50 billion rupees (about 450 million to 570 million yuan), and plans in 2016 for the first time a person into space.
In contrast, India living in 134 of all 187 countries in the overall United Nations development ranking. Earlier this year, a survey also showed that 42% of India's children under five underweight due to malnutrition.
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