Mar 24
No country is against the development of science and scientific research.It has been recognized by everyone that without science there is no development.Therefore, promotion of scientific research in all area is taken up seriously.Research both in basic and applied sciences is essential to achieve national and international developments.In fact, basic science is costly as compared to the applied science.In a recent article on science for sustainable development published in Current Science (Curr. Sci.) Dr. I. P. Abrol mentioned that low level of funding is frequently cited as one of the major factors for the declining state of science in India.Not only Dr. Abrol, many other Indian scientists used to tell the same ‘low level funding’ for the poor science in India.It was the state of affair once, but now the situation is considerable improved.All branches of science, agriculture, engineering, medicine, veterinary, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology do not suffer from ‘low level of funding’ nowadays.In fact, most of the research institutions are not able to spend the allocated fund for scientific research in time.Anyway much of the fund goes for salaries, some for the upkeep of the building and other infrastructures and the rest only is used for scientific research.In the name of research projects funded by various foreign agencies and also the Government of India itself, amounts to over funding sometimes.I still remember some of the World Bank funded projects in Agricultural Sciences.Crores of rupees allotted to Agricultural Universities and National Agricultural Research Institutes.In addition to it large number of …