India will be providing Rs [1] crore to the multinational Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, whose telescope arrays or groups of telescopes will be built in Australia and South Africa. The Union Cabinet approved the monetary contribution to the international astronomical collaboration involving more than a dozen countries. Once constructed, the telescopes will scan the skies faster than any previous of its kind, mapping out all visible galaxies up till the edge of the universe, in more detail than ever before. Survey data from SKA observation will provide deep insights into the early days of evolution of our galaxy, and the telescope will also search for signs of life elsewhere outside the Earth. The SKA will be built in two phases in both places, with the first phase of construction of SKA1 having begun in December 2022. It is expected to begin operations by [2]. SKA will be a group of radio telescopes operating out of South Africa and Australia in two different ranges of radio frequency. Its headquarters are at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK. The project aims to answer a wide variety of long-standing questions in physics and cosmology, by observing the universe. It will study the Milky Way in great detail. Since our home galaxy’s view is better from the Southern Hemisphere, the arrays are being constructed there. SKA will be a group of radio telescopes operating out of South Africa and Australia in two different ranges of radio frequency. Its headquarters are at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK. The project aims to answer a wide variety of long-standing questions in physics and cosmology, by observing the universe. It will study the Milky Way in great detail. Since our home galaxy’s view is better from the Southern Hemisphere, the arrays are being constructed there. Once constructed, the SKA will be the most powerful telescope ever built, and is expected to make unanticipated discoveries of the unknown. It will also be one of the world’s largest collaborative research projects, involving thousands of researchers and the world’s fastest supercomputers.