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>>15689145
It's a very old agency and got started when India was even poorer than it is today. Add that to India always being on top of missile tech (effective for nuclear program and defending against Pakistan/China in high altitude environments) and you get a long legacy of low-resource high-quality development with every rupee that they get being hard fought for with solid results.

Picrel is them assembling their first rocket in the 60s, transporting smaller parts by bicycle because the team didn't have enough funding for trucks and a lot of fuel to spare