Congress' Shashi Tharoor noted that the successful ISRO team comprised mostly the products of government engineering colleges. Noting that 20% of ISRO team comprised women, he stressed that they made it "without any reservation". He also paid glowing tributes to India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru's contributions in building science institutions and hailed the role of the late scientist Vikram Sarabhai in building ISRO.
