P Veeramuthuvel, the project director of Chandrayaan-3, will be donating Rs 25 lakh, which was awarded to him by the Tamil Nadu government recently. He will donate the amount to the alumni associations of four institutes in Tamil Nadu where he pursued his education.
The Rs 25 lakh award money will be donated equally to the alumni associations of the following institutes:
Elumalai Polytechnic College in
Villupuram
Sri Sairam Engineering College
NIT- Trichy
IIT-Madras
In October, the Tamil Nadu government felicitated the ISRO scientists from the state for their contribution to the field of space research. They were given a cash award of Rs 25 lakhs each.
P Veeramuthuvel is a Tamil Nadu-born scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation who was the Project Director for the Chandrayaan-3 mission.