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“Professor Dhawan’s management philosophy was that when success comes in after
hard work, the leader should give the credit of the success to the team members.
When failure comes, the leader should absorb the failures and protect the team
members,” recounted Dr. Kalam.

Thanks to continuing success of robust management structure, it has since been adopted
for the execution of high-technology projects by other R&D centres of India as well, notably
the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Under Dhawan’s aegis, ISRO also worked towards fulfilling Vikram Sarabhai’s dream of
using space science to address the development needs India. As such, pioneering
programmes and carefully thought out experiments were carried out in rural education,

remote sensing and satellite communications.

The development of operational communication systems (like INSAT) and remote
sensing systems (like IRS) are outcomes of these crucial efforts.

Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota

Photo Source (http://www.shar.gov.in/sdscshar/index.jsp)

Even after retirement, he continued to devote his attention to matters of public policy in
science and technology, especially space technology. Interestingly, he was deeply
concerned about the militarization of space and used to comment extensively on Star Wars!

With his death on January 3, 2002, India did not just lose one of its most distinguished
scientists, it lost a legend who transformed every organisation he worked for, leading it to
achieve what it had often not thought itself capable of.

As APJ Abdul Kalam and Roddam Narasimha (former director of NAL) wrote in their book,
“Developments in Fluid Mechanics and Space Technology”,

“Professor Dhawan in his professional career has been engineer, teacher, research

scientist, technologist, manager, leader and adviser — often all at the same time.
His great human qualities, deep commitment to social values and extraordinary
objectivity in management have led several generations of students, colleagues and
administrators to efforts that they would otherwise not have taken.”

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