Research offers exciting career, says DST official

Research offers exciting career, says DST official
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Research offers exciting career, says DST official. Maintaining that research has an important career with incentives, Dr T K Chandrashekar, secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Department of Science and Technology, argued that research and development efforts over the last two decades were paying dividends, especially in the realm of the health sector in India.

SRM University celebrates Research Day

Hyderabad: Maintaining that research has an important career with incentives, Dr T K Chandrashekar, secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Department of Science and Technology, argued that research and development efforts over the last two decades were paying dividends, especially in the realm of the health sector in India.

(From left) Dr T K Chandrashekar, Secretary, Science and Engineering Research Board, DST, President, SRM University,  Dr P Sathyanarayanan, Prof D Narayan Rao, Director, Research, SRM University and Dr T R Paarivendhar, Chancellor,  SRM University, at the Research Day celebrations at the university

“Research and development activities may not yield results the next day, but over a period of time it offers hope… the quality of life has gone up,” Chandrashekar said while delivering the chief guest address at SRM University’s Research Day celebrations.“No country can survive without research and development. Things have changed. The gap between the developed and developing countries is shrinking. And this is because of research,” he said.

Picking on the theme of quality versus quantity, the SRM University president Dr P Sathyanarayanan said research should be all-pervasive with a definite accent on quality and quality publications in high impact factor journals. “It is not quantity that matters,” he said, making the point that SRM University had a separate Research Directorate with concentration on research.

“Without research, no country can develop,” SRM University Chancellor Dr Paarivendhar said, while announcing that SRM University was setting up a separate laboratory for research in association with Siemens where researchers and students would be encouraged to work in diverse areas.“Research sharpens your knowledge and we have a long way to go,” the Chancellor said. “Research is not just for the professor. Everyone must have the habit of doing research,” he added.

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