India: Self Reliance

India is among six countries that launch satellites and do so even for Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore and EU countries.
India’s INSAT is among the world’s largest domestic satellite communication systems.
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was indigenously manufactured with most of the components like motor cases, inter-stages, heat shield, cryogenic engine, electronic modules all manufactured by public and private Indian industry.
Columbia space shuttle when it disintegrated over Texas skies just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing on Feb 1st 2003, she was the second Indian in space.
India imported 9M tonnes of food-grains to support its people, through a grand programme of national self-sufficiency which started in 1971, today, it now has a food grain surplus stock of 60M.
India is among the 3 countries in the World that have built Supercomputers on their own. The other two countries being USA and Japan.
India built its own Supercomputer after the USA denied India purchasing a Cray computer back in 1987.
India’s new PARAM Padmaâ„¢ Terascale Supercomputer (1 Trillion processes per sec.) is also amongst only 4 nations in the world to have this capability.
India is providing aid to 11 countries, writing-off their debt and loaning the IMF $300M.