OPINION: South Africa has provided telemetry, tracking and control services for India’s lunar and Mars missions, writes Jaideep Sarkar.
India continues to share the values of diversity, democracy and development with the SA’s democratic state, its political leadership and 55-million citizens.
Against all odds, India’s democracy, economy and society have prospered: in seventy-five-years since the midnight strike of the clock when India gained independence from colonial Britain in 1946, the India has leap-frogged from an impoverished new nation - despite its myriad of monumental challenges and crisis of battling poverty to monsoon rains - this south Asian giant has mastered the art and culture of ensuring its one-billion population receive the social premium of education that has...
The expansion of the public education system, characterized by low fees and an augmented programme of affirmative action, has enabled greater inclusiveness in the student body that is addressing gender, social and regional inequalities and imbalances. Government stepped into the dairy sector, with engineer Verghese Kurien spearheading a cooperative movement, the ‘White Revolution’ –transforming India from a milk-deficient to the world’s largest dairy producer, with farmers getting remunerative prices while nourishing a massive population.
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