Four Indian establishments still on US Entity List

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New Delhi, Aug 2 (UNI) India has been pressing for the removal of all Indian entities from the entity list of the US Department of Commerce, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha today.

Out of the 13 entities, four of them still continued to be on the US entity list.

They are : Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre(LPSC), Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Solid Propellant Booster Plant (SPROB) and Sriharikota Range (SHAR), he said in a written reply.

"The reasons for continuation on the Entities list are known to the US government," he said.

As many as 12 Indian entities were placed in the entity list consequent on US sanctions on India in 1998 in the wake of Pokhran-II nuclear test.

Five Indian entities such as Ammonium Perchlorate Experimental Plan (APEP),Department of Space (DOS), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Space Physics Laboratory (SPL), Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), have been removed from the list on October 2001.

ISRO headquarters was removed from the list in September 2004, and ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU) and Space Applications Centre (SAC) were removed from the list in August 2005.

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