Twenty avoidance manoeuvres across twenty LEO satellites in a single year works out to roughly one per satellite - a striking figure, because every manoeuvre spends propellant that cannot be replenished and therefore shortens the satellite's operational life. Debris is thus not only a safety issue but a direct cost to India's space assets. The two-part response is the right one. On tracking, the Hanle telescope fills a specific gap: radar works well in LEO but not at geostationary altitude around 36,000 km, where optical observation is the only practical method, and 30 cm is a meaningful detection threshold for that regime. On mitigation, the Debris Free Space Mission is notable for including private actors, which matters increasingly as IN-SPACe licenses more private launches - a debris commitment that binds only the government would be worth little in a liberalised sector. The liability framework under consideration is the missing third piece and the one with commercial consequences: under international space law the launching State bears liability for damage caused by its space objects, so as private Indian operators multiply, the State needs a domestic mechanism to allocate that exposure through insurance and recourse. The Antariksh Venture Capital Fund sits on the other side of the same policy shift - Rs 188.93 crore of public money placed into a SEBI-regulated fund to take equity in space startups, which is a very different instrument from a grant.