If its not for pride, than Indian ISRO has no need to quantify the question this way. All India do is for pride and get more funding for their own segment of funds. In another word, this would bring more money to the organization, and hence, more money for corruption. Its this whole mission is a corruption racket. I feel sorry for the poor and the under privilege of India getting screwed again and again. and now, again.
Britain had bound India together with English. And now, India is just 35 nations arrayed along the British rail line. So India has advantage over EU that an outside invader had unified the subcontinent with a language and political system. The European subcontinent, unfortunately, never benefited from a British type invasion of India to unify the European subcontinent.