Politics dithers Indian scientists to return home
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 19:56 IST
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Politics dithers Indian scientists to return home
Chennai: The Indian origin scientists may return home, if the Government makes "attractive offers" to undertake research in science. Calling for "autonomy from red tape and local politics" in India, Nobel laureate Indian-American Scientist Venkataraman Ramakrishnan said that bureaucracy and politics were the dithering factors for the Indian scientists to return home. "We should give a lot of autonomy from bureaucracy, from red tape and from local politics so that they (Indian origin scientists) can come. What they like to do is science," Ramakrishnan, Winner of Nobel Prize for Chemistry, told PTI. Since there was "too much" of bureaucracy and intervention of local politics in India, many scientists of Indian origin living especially in the West were reluctant to come, he added. Suggesting the Indian government to take cue from its Chinese counterpart, which had recently launched a scheme to bring back Chinese scientists settled abroad, Ramakrishnan said, "Make it attractive enough then they will continue to do good science while being in India. Then many of them might return." "I think people, who come back to India will have strong personal ties," he said adding that those who stayed back "feel they don't have the facilities."

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