bengaluru even as the indian space programme has managed indigenous a majority of all the components that go into satellites and launch vehicles the indian space research organisations isro dependence of foreign players for electronics has irked a departmentrelated parliamentary standing committeethe committee on science technology environment forests and climate change in a report tabled in parliament on friday has noted efforts to indigenise electronic components in our space programme must be intensified if needed in public private partnership ppp mode an import dependence of more than 80 is unacceptably high isro chairman k sivan while conceding this told toi if you look at it in terms of value weve indigenised nearly 90 and only about 9 is imported these are just carbon carbon fibre and electronics weve started fabricating in our own lab sivan saidelaborating further he said the good thing is that our semiconductor lab sdl in chandigarh has started producing devices and some key aspects slowly our own components will be ready for example in the last pslv missile the computer chipprocessor vikram was fabricated in sdl also some of the detectors guarding hysis spacecraft is from sdlthe panel while pointing out that the countrys space programme depends on a single foreign company for the entire supply of carboncarbon fibre and composites said this is an area that demands urgent attention of the governmentslowly we are picking up in production of such things in our own industry but still when you look at the total electronics used we depend heavily on foreign sources and this has to change sivan saidin the coming days he said although the sdl is there we may need to expand sdl or bring in more industries that can produce these things