Hamza913
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Do you realize you answered your own question?
Here:
Not having a space program didn't help you fight poverty and many other countries around the world - faster or otherwise. So why villainize a flourishing space program when you know from your own experience that spending on space program is not the reason for poverty?
Besides, fighting poverty doesn't mean throwing all the money that you have at it, at the cost of everything else. Poverty alleviation requires multi-pronged approaches - infrastructure building, population control, investing in education-healthcare-science-technology, women-empowerment and building an efficient public distribution system. All of which, India is already doing and in plenty.
Even today, while Indian space program has meagre annual budgets (couple of billions), it spends obscenely disproportionate amounts to fight poverty & subsidies, but India's problem is not the lack of resources but competent, efficient and corruption-free institutions.
@Topic I think we can do without comparisons to Apollo missions. Not only is C-2 late by 50 years, ISRO still doesn't have capacity send man to space, let alone to the Moon.
It's still a waste of money, you don't have the tech to achieve anything major or groundbreaking, NASA and SpaceX will always be ahead you.
Let's call this what it is, useless chest thumping.