Chandrayaan-3 Top Scientist To Give Away 2 Years' Salary To Alma Mater
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Dr P Veeramuthuvel, 46, the son of a railway technician, is the project director of Chandrayaan-3 and he successfully steered the historic soft-landing on the Moon's surface
The Chandrayaan-3 mission brought out the best of the engineering skills of scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and now their charitable deeds are making them new icons of philanthropy. Still in debt for his home loan, the hands-on leader for the success of the lander Vikram has donated more than two years of his take-home salary to his alma mater.
Dr P Veeramuthuvel, 46, the son of a railway technician, is the project director of Chandrayaan-3 and he successfully steered the historic soft-landing on the Moon's surface.
For that remarkable feat, the Tamil Nadu government on Gandhi Jayanti awarded him and eight of his colleagues from the state Rs 25 lakh each as a gift. He has now decided to donate the entire amount to the alumni associations of the institutions he studied in.
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