{"id":1694,"date":"2023-10-07T02:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2023-10-07T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T09:47:18","slug":"tamil-nadu-honours-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Heroes of Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Space Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Article By: Aaradhana Umesh, Std.9, Porur<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin &nbsp;recently celebrated nine brilliant space scientists for their fantastic work in India&#8217;s space program. In a special event in Chennai on Oct. 2, chief minister announced a cash prize of Rs.25 lakh for each scientist and shared plans for a scholarship program to inspire postgraduate engineering students.<br>The chief minister felicitated K. Sivan (Former Chairman of ISRO), Mylswamy Annadurai (Former Director), V. Narayanan &nbsp;(Director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre \u2013 ISRO), A.&nbsp; Rajarajan (Director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre), M. Sankaran (Distinguished ISRO Scientist), P. Veeramuthuvel (Chandrayaan-3 Project Director), M. Vanitha (ISRO Scientist), Nigar Shaji (ISRO Scientist) and J. Asir Packiaraj (Director of ISRO-Propulsion Complex).<br>CM Stalin praised these scientists for their inspiring journeys, mentioning that six of them attended government schools in Tamil Nadu and came from humble backgrounds. He encouraged the state&#8217;s young generation to follow their dreams and excel in science. The government has introduced a scholarship program to commemorate a distinguished scientist. This initiative aims to support nine engineering students who previously attended government schools and received financial aid from the government during their undergraduate studies. With a budget of Rs.10 crore, the scholarship program will cover all expenses, such as tuition and accommodation fees, allowing these talented students to pursue their scientific dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article By: Aaradhana Umesh, Std.9, Porur Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin &nbsp;recently celebrated nine brilliant space scientists for their fantastic work in India&#8217;s space program. In a special event in Chennai on Oct. 2, chief minister announced a cash prize of Rs.25 lakh for each scientist and shared plans for a scholarship program to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porurtimes.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}