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1. Civilizational Studies Centre "Manas and Mahabharata" (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

Organisations Involved: Joint initiative by Centre for Studies of International Relations (CSIR), New Delhi, and National Manas Academy, Kyrgyzstan.
Key Milestone: Official launch of the first Hindi translation of the Kyrgyz epic Manas (translated by Hem Chandra Pande and Ramakant Dwivedi).
Cultural Context:
Epic of Manas: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2013) detailing the unification of Kyrgyz tribes.
Mahabharata: Ancient Indian Sanskrit epic composed by Sage Vyasa, detailing statecraft (Dharma) and the Kurukshetra War.
Geopolitical Policy Link: Supports India's Connect Central Asia Policy to leverage civilizational soft power.
Geographic Profile: Bishkek is the capital of landlocked Kyrgyzstan, bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China (along the Tianshan range).

Award & Category: Won the WSIS Prizes 2026 (World Summit on the Information Society) Global Winner under Action Line C6: Enabling Environment.
Organising Body: International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialized UN agency headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
Core Model: "Phygital" (Physical + Digital) delivery model connecting rural areas via Samriddhi Kendras for telemedicine (Health ATMs, PM Jan Aushadhi), precision agriculture (soil IoT, drone spraying), and e-governance via Common Services Centres (CSCs).
Underlying Infrastructure: Built on the BharatNet Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) network, executed by BBNL/BSNL.
Funding Mechanism: Funded via the Digital Bharat Nidhi (formerly Universal Service Obligation Fund / USOF) under the Telecommunications Act, 2023.

Mission Specifics: Launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Joining Expedition 74/75 for an 8-month duration.
Profile: Indian-origin NASA astronaut (Group 23, 2021 candidate), former SpaceX flight surgeon, and emergency medicine physician.
Objectives: Human microgravity physiology experiments for the Artemis program; installing iROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays).
Static Context — ISS: A Low Earth Orbit (LEO, ~400 km) laboratory operated by NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
Indian Human Spaceflight Context:
First Indian in space: Rakesh Sharma (1984, Soyuz T-11).
India's crewed space mission: ISRO’s Gaganyaan program.