Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that the Chandrayaan-3 mission is "better than many other missions undertaken by other countries". "In a way, not only is this mission comparatively better than many other missions undertaken by the other countries, it is also totally indigenous. The discovery of water on the surface of the Moon was made by Chadrayaan-1. Now this is going to go one step further, more so because it is landing on the South Polar region of the Moon," he said.