Coimbatore, November 18, 2008 – IR Summary/Agencies/ISRO – Keeping the grand success of  India's maiden lunar probe which is circling the moon, the Govt. of India has approved Chandrayaan-II, to be fully indigenous, to orbit by 20011-12, and to accomplish the project have allocated necessary funds to go ahead, ISRO has already started its research work in this direction to complete the Project on time, Chandrayaan-I Project Director Mylswamy Annadurai revealed the information.
 
Chandrayan-I is the best thing to happen to Indian space research and is designed to study the water availability and fertile standards of moon, he said.

The moon mission has proved that India is on par with any other nation which ventured to the earth's satellite, he said.

Stating that the pictures being received from moon were giving very valuable inputs, he said steps are being made to get continuous pictures by making some technical corrections.

Earlier, the Scientist was felicitated by the public at different places in Coimbatore district for the successful launch of the country's moon mission.

Accepting the felicitations, Annadurai exhorted the students to shelve their foreign dreams as opportunities were available within India.

The days of foreign students coming to India in pursuit of research works and higher studies were not far away, he said.