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Dr. Anil Kakodkar Dr Anil Kakodkar, the Indian nuclear scientist, was born on 11 November 1943 in the village Barawani, Madhya Pradesh. His parents Kamala Kakodkar and P Kakodkar were both Gandhians. He did his schooling in Mumbai and graduated from the Ruparel College. Kakodkar then joined VJTI in Bombay University in 1963 to obtain a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1964, Kakodkar joined the Reactor Engineering Division of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and played a key role in design and construction of the Dhruva reactor, a completely original but high- tech project. In 1996, Kakodkar became the youngest Director of the BARC after Homi Bhabha. He led the indigenous development of the country’s Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor technology. He was a part of the core team of architects of India’s Peaceful Nuclear Tests in 1974 and 1998. Kakodkar took over as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy in 2000. Kakodkar has been playing a crucial part in demanding sovereignty for India’s nuclear tests. He strongly advocates the cause of India’s self-reliance by using thorium as a fuel for nuclear energy.
Dr. G. Madhavan Nair Dr. G. Madhavan Nair was born on 31 October 1943 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. This former chairperson of the India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is known as the man behind Chandrayaan, India’s first unmanned mission to the Moon. Nair did his graduation in electrical and communication engineering from the University of Kerala in 1966. He then underwent training at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay. He joined the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in 1967. During his six-year tenure at ISRO, as many as 25 successful missions were accomplished. He took a keen interest in programmes such as teleeducation and telemedicine for meeting the needs of society at large. As a result, more than 31,000 classrooms have been connected under the EduSAT network and telemedicine is extended to 315 hospitals − 269 in remote/rural/district hospitals including 10 mobile units and 46 super specialty hospitals. Nair also initiated the Village Resource Centres (VRCs) scheme through satellite connectivity, which aims at improving the quality of life of the poor people in the villages. More than 430 VRCs have now access to information on important aspects like land use/land cover, soil
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