Parliament Question: Space technology support for Andhra Pradesh

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF SPACE RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1566 TO BE ANSWERED ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2026 SPACE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT FOR ANDHRA PRADESH

1566. SHRI SANA SATHISH BABU:

Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state:

(a) the details of space application projects supported by ISRO/NRSC in Andhra Pradesh during the last five years, covering agriculture, fisheries, disaster management, urban planning, tele-education, tele-medicine and water resources and nature of support (technical or financial);

(b) the project-wise funds allocated, disbursed and utilised for such projects;

(c) the NGE-wise details of startups, companies, MSMEs and academic institutions from the State registered with IN-SPACe, indicating their names, locations and activities; and

(d) the funds sanctioned, disbursed and utilised by each registered NGE and the details of entities availing facilitation, seed funding and authorization support? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES & PENSIONS AND IN THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE (DR. JITENDRA SINGH):

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(a) The following space application projects are executed for Andhra Pradesh with technical support from ISRO, during the last five years:

Agriculture:

(i) Satellite-based monitoring of crop sown area and harvest area progression

(ii) Cropped area & yield maps for rice crop

(iii) Generation of crop sown area maps using SAR data by the end of August

(iv) Agricultural drought vulnerability assessment at mandal level(v) Yield Estimation based on Technology (YES-TECH) under PMFBY

(vi) High resolution satellite data for AgriStack project of MoA&FW

Fisheries:

The Department of Fisheries with the technology developed by ISRO using NavIC and communication satellite rolled out the Vessel Communication and Support System (VCSS) project under Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) to provide two-way communication between fisherman on boat and control room in the coastal state including Andhra Pradesh.

Disaster management support:

(i) Near-real time mapping, monitoring & damage assessment of major disasters like floods, cyclones, forest fire

(ii) Preparation of Flood Hazard zonation atlas using 21 years’ of flood inundation data

(iii) Dissemination of flood alerts with 2-day lead time for floods in Godavari river

(iv) Customized geoportal for disaster management for the State, including mobile application, and training program on space applications for AP state disaster management officials

(v) Installation of two lightning detection sensors and Taluka level lightning hotspot assessment

Urban planning:

(i) Implementation of Bhuvan WebGIS and mobile application for the State Housing Corporation towards geotagging of houses, enabling monitoring of the construction & repair works

(ii) Provision of Application Programme Interface (API) to the Centre for Good Governance, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh Tele-education & Tele-medicine:

Department of Space continues to support tele-education and tele-medicine network by providing satellite capacity and technical assistance.

Water resources:

(i) Mapping and inventory of wetlands(ii) Coastal water quality assessment

(iii) Urban waterbody information system for three water bodies per town, covering 33 AMRUT towns

(iv) Monitoring of 376 watershed projects in PMKSY-WDC 1.0 and 59 projects in PMKSY-WDC 2.0 In addition to above, the following space application projects are carried out for Andhra Pradesh with technical and financial support of National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC),

ISRO:

(i) Land Cover Land Use at annual (1:250,000 scale) & five-yearly cycles (1:50,000 scale)

(ii) Space based Information Support for De-centralised Planning- Update (SIS-DP- Update) project.

(b) Fund Allotment and Utilisation: (for last 5 years) Project Name Fund Sanctioned Fund Fund (Rs. Lakhs) Disbursed Utilized (Rs. Lakhs) (Rs. Lakhs) Space Based Information for Decentralized 118.95 118.95 118.95 Planning – Update (SISDP-U) (completed) Land cover and land use mapping at 1:50 106.66 42.67 42.67 000 Scale (5-Year Cycle) (ongoing) National Wetlands Inventory and 31.25 31.25 31.25 Assessment (completed)

(c) The Non-Governmental Entities (NGEs) wise list of startups, companies, MSMEs and academic institutions indicating their names, locations and activities, from Andhra Pradesh approached to IN-SPACe is attached at Annexure.

(d) IN-SPACe has conceptualized Seed Fund scheme under which 5 funding opportunities have been announced. Out of this one start-up namely M/s Nspace Tech India Pvt. Ltd., Tenali, Andhra Pradesh, has been selected for mentorship. Further, the company has been facilitated by IN- SPACe for availing access to the ISRO facilities for testing their SwetchaSat V0 satellite and also authorization granted for establishment and operation of hosted payload, till date.

****Annexure ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1566 TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.02.2026 List of NGEs i.e., Startups, Companies, MSMEs and Academic institutions from Andhra Pradesh approached to IN-SPACe Sl.

Name of NGEs Type Location Activities No.

National Institute of Academics 1 Academia Warangal Technology Warangal V R Siddhartha Academics 2 Academia Vijayawada Engineering College Charan Aerospace Manufacture of launch 3 Industry Visakhapatnam vehicles NPHSAT Systems Pvt Developing Antennas for 4 Industry Vijayawada Ltd Small and Large Satellites Rameshs Aerospace Manufacture and supply of Micro and Products and Services Vijayawada, Ablative and Structural 5 Small Pvt Ltd Andhra Pradesh composites for Space and Enterprises Defence applications.

Aarshadhaatu Green The Company focuses on eco- Nanotechnologies friendly synthesis routes, India Pvt Ltd scalable production, and Micro and translational research for 6 Small Guntur industries ranging from Enterprises defence and aerospace to energy storage, healthcare, and environmental applications.

Taramandal Taramandal vision is to lead Technologies Pvt Ltd the orbit with a sustainable orbital environment where private industry, human 7 Startup Visakhapatnam spaceflight, and research can all flourish and where all space assets are either reused or deorbited.

Red Balloon Red Balloon Aerospace is a Aerospace Private deep tech aerospace startup Limited developing next generation of high altitude platforms that 8 Startup Vijayawada bridge the critical gap between satellites and UAVs.

Headquartered in Ratan Tata Innovation Hub APIS, Andhra Pradesh, India.Sl.

Name of NGEs Type Location Activities No.

Raudranex Space The company focuses on Technologies Electric Propulsion Technologies that make space 9 Startup Visakhapatnam logistics and deep-space exploration practical, scalable, and sustainable.

BES Space The company is in Space domain like 1) SAFER- Space Anomaly Forensics and Environmental Resolutions.

Vijaywada 2)SWAT - Space Warfare 10 Startup Andhra Pradesh Analysis Tool 3) SHIVA - Space Highest Information Value Assessment 4) Global Data, AI/ML , Data Privacy enabler tools N Space Tech India N Space Tech is a startup that Private Limited focuses mainly on space Tenali Andhra 11 Startup research and space Pradesh technology.

Sanketa Sravana LLP Providing radiation shielding Vijayawada, 12 Startup solutions in the space Andhra Pradesh industry.

The Spark of Wisdom The main activities are Research and Development Space Mining, extraction of material from asteroids and other minor planets. It could be a way to supply earth and space colonies with materials Warangal, 13 Startup including metals and minerals Andhra Pradesh like iron, nickel, magnesium, water, oxygen, gold and platinum. Asteroid mining could also help solve earths problems with resource depletion and carbon pollution.

Talelabs Space Startup Visakhapatanam Aerospace and Aviation 14 Innovations Component Manufacturing ****