28 August 2023

Our 'Space Research' and ground reality

Our Central Government has always been proud of it's achievements in a wide spectrum of human development areas such as health, education, digitalisation, economic empowerment and so on.

Recently the Government lauded the efforts of ISRO's Chandrayan 3 Mission. I strongly feel that such missions are not of any benefit to common folk.

Every even minded Indian knows the speed at which cost of living has been increasing. To give a specific example, a cylinder of domestic cooking gas (LPG) cost Rs 625 in 2017; it increased to Rs 850 in 2021. Just last month, when I ordered for a cylinder, it cost Rs 1118.50.

I sincerely think that instead of misusing taxpayer's money in needless space research, our Government should spend money in developing projects that would bring the cost of living down and enable common folk to live more comfortably. 

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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.