The article I read said that the manned/lunar effort would see a tripling of ISRO's budget. That's a major infusion of cash.
It'll take more than the GSLV3 to get them to the moon, 10-20 10t launches is unreasonable. They need a 20-30t launcher minimum. With 3x the budget though, the GSLV4 could begin development. Perhaps they could buy RD-171s or RD-180s and develop their own atlas/angara CBC.
hektor - 10/11/2006 5:54 AMFrench weekly Air & Cosmos says this week that the Indian capsule will be a two-seater. I wonder where they got that from.
Space.com - 11/11/2006 "While ISRO is just now revealing its plans, it has been quietly preparing for manned space missions ever since China put an astronaut in space in 2003. It has redesigned an existing satellite launcher – the GSLV — to carry a crew of two and has already built a space recovery capsule, said B.N. Suresh, director of the ISRO centre in Trivandrum..."