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NAT8National/Science/Technology/ChandrayaanISRO employees to celebrate Chandrayaan success with special lunchThiruvananthapuram, Nov 18 IANS Nearly 5,000 employees of the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO in Kerala will next week celebrate the success of the Chandrayaan-1 mission with a special lunch and are also hopeful of being given a salary hike in appreciation of their work, an official said.Workers at four ISRO units in the state will be treated to a traditional Kerala feast and also given a packet of sweets each on Nov 24. Incidentally, it was from ISRO's Thumba unit near here that the US-made Nike-Apache Sounding Rocket was launched in 1963, marking the beginning of India's space odyssey.The ISRO employees are also expecting to be granted a special bonus due to the success of the moon mission."The Joint Consultative Machinery, a forum of all recognised ISRO employee unions that also consists of the top brass of the department of space, is meeting in Bangalore to discuss a special bonus for the successful launch," an official said Monday."Recently just 30 percent of the ISRO employees in the scientist category got a grade increase. With the success of Chandrayaan, the general feeling is that the government will agree to an overall hike in salary," he added. The employees want a 20 to 25 percent hike."Compared to the software industry, the only advantage for ISRO engineers is that our jobs are secure," said the official. --Indo-Asian News Service sg/sh/jg252 Words18111032
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