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Earth orbit has substantial advantages-- the major being that as it is close to earth it can be reached in hours as compared to Moon and Mars.

A would be human colony in space designed by Pragya, Kirti, Kanika, Aditya, Shreya and Abhishek-- class Xth students of the Dikshant International School here - was selected in NASA National Space Settlement Contest for the year, 2009 and the students will now get a chance to rub shoulders with top scientists at the May 28-31 conclave.

Impressed by their project on human colonies beyond the earth, US space agency NASA has invited six students from a Chandigarh-based school to its annual International Space Development Conference in Florida.

The colony meets all the needs of the occupants and looks like a simulation of our home, the earth.

Keeping in mind that the human inhabitation in space will require access to food, space, construction materials, energy, transportation, communications, life support, simulated gravity, and radiation protection, colonies will be situated in the earth orbit, school director Mitul Dikshit said.


Dikhit said the reason for exploring and thinking of setting up space colonies is that they would ensure the survival of humans, should earth become inhabitable because of climate change or because of threats from near earth objects such as asteroids.

While designing the space colony, students had a chance to study physics, mathematics, space science, environmental science, and many other disciplines.

It is going to be a tough economic scenario for some more time to come. Cost of R&D, be it development or re-engineering or support is critical for survival of semiconductor companies, but those need to be done at lower costs. India will continue to be a cost leader to get more engineering done at same cost or same engineering done at lower cost. India will continue to be a safe haven for such investments.

India itself is a high growth market that will get sizable in the next five years for the semiconductor companies. No one can understand India and the emerging market requirements than the companies located here. That can be leveraged by the world to create value for money products that will serve the emerging market needs.

Indian companies are investing in technologies and creating intellectual properties/ building blocks of technologies. They are essential elements to create products/solutions in a shorter timeframe when the market starts recovering and builds appetite for consumption. Hence, Indian companies need to invest more in such areas and position themselves as value add vendors to source technologies.

The newer markets like electronics in healthcare and renewable energy space provides level playing field since our maturity level is no less inferior to the western world. We need to invest, create solutions and products that can establish India not only as a market, but also a leading technology provider for the global market.

While the global consumption of semicon has seen a drastic drop in Q4 of 2008 and likely to see a negative growth in the first half of 2009, India will be one among the few markets that will see increasing consumption through sale of electronic products. The captive and design services companies serving the semiconductor market is facing a head wind, no doubt. However, the impact on them is much lesser compared to what is happening in the rest of the world.

With the Indian market continuing to grow while the global semiconductor market is declining, we may end up seeing a slower growth, but an increased market share. Hence, I see the dynamics in the market will lead to us gaining our way for longer term, though we can't escape short term pains. When the recovery starts, India will gather much higher momentum of growth since it will be a lucrative market for selling and a lower cost market for sourcing for any global semiconductor players.