India, Aug. 21 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Government of India through IN-SPACe, Department of Space, has sought willingness from state governments to establish spacemanufacturing clusters in their respective states. IN-SPACe will establish Common Technical Facilities within the space manufacturingclusters which will have capital intensive infrastructure required for realising the space systems.

With respect to support for state run universities, the followingschemes/initiatives have been introduced:

* IN-SPACe has developed curriculum for B.Tech. Minor Degree in SpaceTechnology. This curriculum is approved by AICTE for adoption bystates or central universities. Presently, 08 colleges affiliated withstat...