Questions are sometimes asked about whether a poor country like India can afford a space programme and whether the funds spent on space exploration, albeit modest, could be better utilised elsewhere," Singh said in a speech...This misses the point that a nation's state of development is finally a product of its technological prowess.
The statement was made as India successfully launched its 100th space mission placing two foreign commercial satellites into orbit. Of course, the article then goes on to note that "42 percent of Indian children aged under five are underweight due to malnutrition."
