If Science Seems Stuck, So Do The Prime Ministers

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[color=#3F3F3F][font=Georgia,]* I would like to see a hike in investments in R&D from the present 0.86% of the GDP to 1% this year, and to be further increased to 2% over the next five years: Prime Minister A B Vajpayee at the 2000 Indian Science Congress, Pune.[/font][/color]




[color=#3F3F3F]* We must aim to increase the total R&D spending as a percentage of GDP to at least 2 per cent by the end of the XII Plan Period from the current level of about 1 per cent: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 2012 Indian Science Congress, Bhubaneswar.[/color]



[color=#3F3F3F]A coincidence? May be. But consider this.[/color]



[color=#3F3F3F]* We will promote public private partnerships, to increase funding for frontier areas of scientific and technological research: Singh at the 2005 Indian Science Congress, Ahmedabad.[/color]



[color=#3F3F3F]* We have to increase public private partnerships and catalyse significantly increased interaction between publicly owned Science and Technology institutions and industry: Singh at the 2012 Indian Science Congress, Bhubaneswar.[/color]




[color=#3F3F3F]The Science Congress is the largest congregation of scientists in the country, held every year from January 3 to 7 and inaugurated by the Prime Minister. It started in 1914 and the 99th edition just completed in Bhubaneswar. It is a permanent engagement on the Prime Minister’s calendar and after Independence there have been only two occasions when the Prime Minister has not been able to make it.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]The event is supposed to showcase the best in Indian science and an occasion for the Prime Minister to announce the big-ticket policy initiatives of the government related to science.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]But the speeches of the Prime Ministers in the last 10 years reveal how repetitive this exercise has become reflecting either a policy stasis in the sector, lack of bold reforms or both.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]Each year, the PM underlines the same themes: increase in investment, de-bureaucratisation of scientific establishments, public-private partnerships. So much so that sometimes the Prime Ministers use the same quote to make the point. Like Vajpayee in 2000, when he quoted Nehru to say: “As we enter the new century, I recall the stirring words of the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who said, ‘Scientists are a minority in league with the future’”. Vajpayee used Nehru’s same quote two years later in Lucknow.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]Singh followed him a few years later. He quoted Winston Churchill as having said that “The empires of the future are going to be the empires of the mind” in 2008 and then reused the same quote in 2009.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]The intention of increasing the investment on R&D to at least 2 per cent of the GDP has been repeated almost every year in recent times — in 2002, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Of course, the growth in GDP means that in absolute terms the money going to science has gone up even if it has remained stuck at just under 1 per cent of GDP.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]Similarly, freeing the lab from bureaucratic red tape has been a refrain down the years. In 2002, Vajpayee said that “bureaucratism is an enemy of a result-oriented approach and must be shunned, for it demotivates our scientific talent.” The next year, he echoed this: “We have to ensure that our scientific institutions do not become afflicted with the culture of our Governmental agencies...the main cause leading to frustration among young scientists is seniority displacing merit and talent suppression.”[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]Singh then struck the same notes in 2005 on the “tyranny of bureaucracy” and the perils of bureaucratic systems in 2009. In 2010, he reiterated the need to “liberate Indian science from the shackles and deadweight of bureaucratism and in-house favouritism.”[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]Another favourite, enduring theme: the decline of universities. In 2007, Singh referred to the “widespread concern about the decline in the standards our research work in universities” and called for a “massive” upgrade. Two years later, he said: “We need strengthening of institutional leadership in universities and research institutions.”[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]The one visible movement forward was in the spread of institutions. In 2008, the PM announced the launch of eight new IITs, 30 new Central universities, five new Indian Institutes of Science Education, seven new IIMs and 20 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology. Three years later, the PM announced the establishment of the eight new IITs and the five Indian Institutes of Science Education.[/color]

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[color=#3F3F3F]Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who said,[/color][size=5][color=#008000] ‘Scientists are a minority in league with the future’”[/color][/size][color=#3F3F3F]. Vajpayee used Nehru’s same quote two years later in Lucknow.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]Singh followed him a few years later. He quoted Winston Churchill as having said that[/color][size=5][color=#FF0000] “The empires of the future are going to be the empires of the mind”[/color][/size][color=#3F3F3F] in 2008 and then reused the same quote in 2009.[/color]

This quote be told by Gadhi....
very sad.....
Good post dude.

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[color=#3F3F3F]Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who said,[/color][size=5][color=#008000] ‘Scientists are a minority in league with the future’”[/color][/size][color=#3F3F3F]. Vajpayee used Nehru’s same quote two years later in Lucknow.[/color]

[color=#3F3F3F]Singh followed him a few years later. He quoted Winston Churchill as having said that[/color][size=5][color=#FF0000] “The empires of the future are going to be the empires of the mind”[/color][/size][color=#3F3F3F] in 2008 and then reused the same quote in 2009.[/color]

This quote be told by [size=5][b]Gadhi....[/b][/size]
very sad.....
Good post dude.

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Sonia ga*dhi

[b]Catholic Italian Sonia Miano (Khan) Gandhi[/b]

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Sonia ga*dhi

[b]Catholic Italian Sonia Miano (Khan) Gandhi[/b]
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FYI
[color=#0000ff]Indira Gandhi[/color], daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, became prime minister of India in 1966. Mrs. Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 to Jawaharlal and Kamala Nehru. She was named Indira Priyadarshini Nehru. She fell in love and decided to marry [color=#008000]Feroze Khan[/color], a family friend. Feroze Khan’s father, Nawab Khan, was a Muslim, and mother was a Persian Muslim. [color=#ff0000] Jawaharlal Nehru did not approve of the inter-caste marriage for political reasons (see [/color][url="http://www.asiasource.org/society/indiragandhi.cfm"][color=#ff0000]http://www.asiasource.org/ society/indiragandhi.cfm[/color][/url][color=#ff0000]).[/color] If Indira Nehru were to marry a Muslim she would loose the possibility of becoming the heir to the future Nehru dynasty. At this juncture, [size=5][color=#B22222][i] Mahatma[/i] Gandhi intervened and adopted Feroze Khan, gave him his last name (family name/caste name) and got the name of Feroz Khan changed to Feroz Gandhi by an affidavit in England.[/color][/size]

Thus, Feroze Khan became Feroze Gandhi. Though Mahatma belonged to Bania/Gandhi caste (a business tribe) the proposal was acceptable to Nehru for political reasons. Indira Nehru married Feroze (Khan) Gandhi in 1942 and became Indira Gandhi, which helped her politically as daughter of Nehru (the first Prime Minister of the Indian Union) and daughter–in-law of Gandhi (the father of the nation) securing her place in the future Nehru-Gandhi dynasty (based on [url="http://www.swordoftruth.com/"]swordoftruth.com[/url]).

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