Science & Technology Research in India

Dear Friends,

This is a blog to study the quality of science & technology research in India..With this discussion we should able to identify the problem in present day scientific research and presenting our ideas & opinions to rectify those problems.

The first thing I wonder about India is its vast human resource. We have very good brains to think & work. Unfortunately the funds for research are quite low. This is the only factor that makes many top brains of India to work for foreign countries. 

Can we blame them??

 

Its obvious for any human to stay in a comfort place. They wanted their family to be rich. 

We are so far good in aerospace research, software and nuclear research. However we are not upto the par of the world's advancement. 

We can see almost every technology that is being employed in India is based on foreign research outputs.. When are we going to produce commercially viable outputs to satisfy our own demands? What is the factor that is affecting our research quality???? 

To quote an example, I did my bachelors degree project in a famous research center for energy(not nuclear)..They are considered to be the best researchers India..I see many people, (the so called scientists in India), not all, just copy the scientific ideas from some research works(being published in research journals) done by foreigners. They change some variables from the original research for their experiments and publish them in another research journal. And this happens to be the case with my advisor.

Why this happens? Are we not capable enough to think on our own? 

Infact I couldnt find the answer when I was in India. 

When I came to France to do my Masters degree, I discovered the reason for it. 

Its nothing but our inability to take new decisions. It is not something that we can learn overnight. It has to be cultivated from school education. I see many European scientists do not dare to take new decision.If they invent some new technology they have guts to propose it to the rest of the world. But in our country we always clarify our ideas with a foreign scientist. We will be confident about our invention only after the acknowledgement from this foreigner. And if some new ideas emerge, we always think it may not work. But the real solution can only be achieved if we jump into an extensive research to give a shape to that idea.

Our country didnt earn any NOBEL PRIZEs for the past 79 years. This can be a good proof that we are not doing any original research. 

In India people feel that research is nothing but wasting money in labs. Infact its not true. If we invent or discover something new its going to earn a lot of money to the country. 

And I have many more things to write on this topic. I will do them in future discussions.

I request the blog readers to kindly post their ideas on how we can improve the science & technology research in India...All your ideas & suggestions are highly welcome. 

SOME DAY SOME OF OUR IDEAS MAY(SHOULD) WORK WHICH CAN BE EXECUTED BY SOMEONE(SOME OF US) AND PRESENT OUR COUNTRY'S TALENT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD.

Aravind.