Science

Steps initiated to promote Research and Development in India

In today’s world, the role of science and technology is indispensable in every sphere of our life and without research, progress would slow to a halt.

Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan in a statement laid in the Lok Sabha said that India has active S&T cooperation with 46 countries and 17 regional and multilateral partnerships. These collaborations are in the form of joint R&D (Research and Development) projects, human and institutional capacity building, innovation and technology development, creation of centres of excellence, networking, utilization and creation of mega science facilities etc.

During the last 3 years, a total of 658 joint research projects have been supported. India’s share of international collaboration in world output increased from 3.8 % in 2011 to 4.2 % in 2016.

Schemes to promote participation in Research and Development

The Government has also initiated several programmes and schemes to promote people’s participation in R&D. Several new schemes to attract and engage young researchers such as National Post Doctoral Fellowship, Early Career Research Award, Overseas Doctoral Fellowship and Overseas Post Doctoral Fellowship and Teacher Associates for Research Excellence have been launched. Scientific research is a critical tool for successfully navigating our complex world. Indeed our existence itself depends on it now. Every day new technologies are coming up which are making human life easier and more comfortable and these schemes have almost doubled the opportunities for aspiring researchers for carrying out R&D in their chosen areas of science and engineering. A scheme called Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) has been initiated to bring the best of global science and scientists to India including Non-Resident Indians.

To address gender imbalance, a new scheme to encourage young women in underrepresented areas “Knowledge Involvement in Research Advancement through Nurturing” (KIRAN) has been launched. A scheme called Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research – AWSAR was launched to encourage young scientists to write popular science articles on their research pursuits. To encourage young students to think innovatively, a scheme MANAK – Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge has been launched to target 10 lakh students every year from class 6 to 10.

The gross expenditure on R & D (GERD) in the country has been consistently increasing over the years and has nearly tripled from Rs. 29,932.58 crore in 2005-06 to Rs. 95,452.44 in 2015-16. It has further increased to Rs. 1,03,099.26 crore and Rs. 1,13,825.03 crore in 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively. It is estimated to be Rs. 1,23,847.70 crore in 2018-19.

International research collaborations

We live in an era of science and technology and various important technological developments have resulted from ongoing bi-lateral and multi-lateral projects under the Mega Facilities for Basic Research scheme. Under the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) project at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, high-tech Gs part of the Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) experiment at CERN, design and development of Common Readout Unit (CRU), a hi-tech electronics item was completed. For construction of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Germany, India supplied 164 Power Converters to FAIR, Germany as in-kind contributions from India.

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