Production and production. Any country besides USA and France doing anything in aerospace is an achievem for them.
I intentionally didn't brought up china, they had 30+ launches till september, they are probably reaching 40 launches.
We need to expand the plans of ISRO, it's not like they don't have missions, they could have planned for expanding the coverage of NAVIC, make it into GPS. Partner with indigenous companies or propose ideas for satellite internet services like starlink so on.
Plenty of missions are there, ISRO needs a budget bump. We are spending around 2billion usd per year, money and goal needs to be broadened.
We are talking about sustaining presence in space while countries are talking about building moon base. Once starship starts flying USA will be there, China will be there soon and with that russia.
Moon is the new antartica, in 2 decades we will have rockets being assembled at moon and being launched from there to other planets. While here we are. It's a rant i understand the limitations but a bit frustrated with ISRO, with politicians.
You create goals, you assign an AIM, assign a budget and get the guys to work. Atleast that's how things were being done in countries with better space program. Even japanese are doing so great. Hell even if we consider Rocket Lab as american company based in NZ still that tiny country with tiny company launched 6 times, though way lesser payload and capability but still it's amazing how well they are doing.
It's a rant so don't mind it, feel free to remove it.