India Plans 1st Manned Space Flight for 2016

India has announced plans to put two astronauts into Earth orbit in 2016, which would make it the 4th country to put a manned mission to space.(Russia, the U.S. and China are the 3 countries)
The India Space Research Organization is seeking 124 billion rupees ($2.8 billion Cdn) for the seven-day mission.
"We are preparing for the manned space flight," ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan told
"We will design and develop the space module for the manned mission in the next four years."

Only Russia, the U.S. and China have their own independent human space-flight programs.

The European Union, Iran and Japan have all announced plans for human space flight in the 2020s

Note

• India's First Unmanned Mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, was launched on October 22, 2008, and its instruments were used to find water in the lunar soil.Chandrayaan 1 was launched on October 22, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota by PSLV-C11. It completed 312 days in orbit and making 3400 orbits around the moon.Chandrayaan 1 sent nearly 70,000 amazing images of surface of moon which includes mountains and craters especially at moon’s polar region. It also collected critical information about chemical and mineral content of moon.

• Chandrayaan-1 put India in an elite group of countries with mission to the moon, which includes the U.S., Russia, Japan, China and the countries of the European Space Agency.

• The mission had to be abandoned in August 2009 because of a communications failure with the satellite.Madhavan Nair, the ISRO chief admitted that Mission Chandrayaan has come to an end, although it is a difficult situation.
  He says:
  

  “At the moment, we have suspended the mission. Calling it off would depend on what has failed. We are trying to analyze what has gone wrong and we will take a look at it tomorrow.”

• A second unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, is scheduled in 2013