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India to keep pace with China, Japan
By siliconindia
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Monday, 22 December 2008, 19:18 IST |
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Bangalore: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Indian scientists to do more to keep pace with China and Japan who have surpassed it in taking scientific and technological advances to the people as an effort to provide R&D solutions to the world, and not just remain a global back office.
According to PM, China and Japan have scored over India in delivering to the people the benefits of scientific and technological advances. He also said that the scientists should work to connect science to the daily lives of millions of Indians and further stressed on the use of public-private partnerships to commercialise technologies emerging from R&D programmes being funded by various science departments.
"Unless we apply ourselves to this task, the powerful scientific tools of social and economic change will remain confined to our laboratories and institutions," Singh said. The prime minister further added that the scientists should focus more on linking the lab with the market and asked Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to take lead in this regard.
Keeping in mind the harmful climatic changes, he asked the scientists to use ingenuity and innovativeness of science to find ways to spring forth towards future technologies, which are affordable and sustainable. It is also planned to use some part of the public investment in these technologies that will help build sustainable pathways to development. The PM also explained that The Ministry of Science and Technology is putting together a plan that will provide us the framework for research and investigation in the area of climate change.
"To begin with, let CSIR work to commercially exploit its knowledge base, currently embodied in more that 3,000 or so patents held nationally and globally," Singh said. The government will spare no resource to ensure that the country's huge potential in the science and technology is utilized, he said.