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Call for research on India-specific issues
Call for Research on India-Specific issues, Research on India-specific issues. He observed that there was also a great need for accurately measuring the success of government programmes in India, whether they were effective or not.
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Hyderabad: India cannot compete with many countries with respect to the development of science as long as Indian scientists focus only on incremental advances on research done elsewhere. There are several problems specific to India, which can be further researched to help the country, according to Nobel Laureate Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. Inaugurating the CR Rao Gallery, set up by the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Hyderabad, on Sunday, he said the Gallery was meant for providing a platform for furthering scientific research in the specialised area.
He said that India didn’t even feature in the top 20 countries in basic science, but observed that it would be inaccurate in determining the rank according to the number of research publications. He felt that the number of publications and the quality of science needed to be distinguished. He said that researchers in India have always been trying to focus on things ignored by the West. He suggested that many problems not concerning the west, like salination of sand, deforestation and extinction of species, could be further researched to address those problems which were more specific to India. He said that India could generate large amounts of data about genome diversity in humans.
He observed that there was also a great need for accurately measuring the success of government programmes in India, whether they were effective or not. Warning against the dangers of American snooping of countries across the world over the internet, he emphasised the need for India to develop efficient algorithms which couldn’t be broken by other countries in cyberspace. He said that cyber security threats could affect commerce and healthcare of a country.
He also expressed his dissatisfaction over the kind of importance being given on his Nobel Prize tag in the country, as he felt that the media and the people of India were giving more importance to his intellectual status than his subject. He wished people would discuss more about his subject.
Prof T Ramasami said that inaugurating the Gallery on National Mathematics Day, on December 22, made him a happy man and said that the Gallery was started not only to celebrate the past, but to celebrate the future. Tejaswini Rao, daughter of CR Rao and the Chairperson of CR Rao Gallery, read her father’s address. She said that the economic development of a country depends on research and innovation.
It was for producing such quality research in the areas of mathematics, statistics and computer science the gallery was started. Dr CR Rao, Allam Appa Rao, VK Saraswat, Bhargavi Rao, Ramakrishna Ramaswamy and others were also present.
