'We were so poor that getting a rice meal daily was a big deal for us’

Though not overseeing the Chandrayaan-2 mission directly, Nageswara Rao is managing all technical reviews of the project. Before holding the director’s post over a year ago, he was the associate director at UR Rao Satellite Centre, where he was involved in the development of the Chandrayaan-2 module.
“I belong to a remote village of Bodovada in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district. We were so poor that getting a rice meal daily was a big deal. We used to go to our neighbour’s house to drink butter milk. Even when I was in college, I used to work in our field and bring water from a storage tank for irrigation,” Rao told TOI.
“My father is now 90 plus and still lives in the village. My four brothers look after our agricultural field,” he said. Despite all the hardships, Rao completed a BSc (physics), MSc (electronics) and later a PhD in physics.
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References

1. ^{^} Chandrayaan-2 mission (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2. ^{^} Nageswara Rao (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
3. ^{^} UR Rao Satellite Centre (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
4. ^{^} Chandrayaan-2 module (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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