“Isro will continue to remain India’s principal institution for advanced space R&D, national and strategic missions, space science and exploration, and critical and frontier space capabilities.

Participation of the private sector is not about reducing Isro’s role.

“Industry, start-ups and academia are being enabled to participate across the space value chain, complementing and multiplying Isro’s capabilities.

“Transferring a mature technology doesn’t mean Isro is withdrawing from that domain. “Meanwhile, mature and routinely manufactured systems can increasingly be scaled through industry. “The Department of Space provides overall policy direction, Isro remains the core organisation for advanced R&D, technology development and national missions.

It added that industry and start-ups contribute investment, innovation, manufacturing capacity and market access.

“At the same time, ownership and control of critical national space infrastructure and strategic capabilities will continue to remain with the Govt.

Private participation in operations and services will be enabled where appropriate and will remain subject to national-security, safety and other regulatory requirements.

Strategic and nationally critical capabilities will continue to be governed by security, safety, quality and national-interest considerations,” it said.