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Take science to people, win another Nobel: Pranab to scientists
Thursday January 03, 2013 05:59:51 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: President Pranab Mukherjee Thursday asked scientists to help spread the
scientific culture among people and urged them to win another
Nobel for India soon.
"It has been 83 long years since C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize
for Physics. Another Nobel Prize in the sciences is long overdue
for India," the president said while inaugurating the centenary
celebrations of the Indian Science Congress here.
"I call upon the scientific fraternity gathered here to rise up to
this challenge and work towards this goal in a time bound manner.
"I would like to urge upon you all to apply modern tools for
communicating science in a manner that can be understood by the
common man.
"This understanding would contribute to the creation of a science
culture in the Indian society."
Six Nobel laureates, 60 foreign scientists and 15,000 delegates
are taking part in the five-day conclave whose theme is "Science
for Shaping Future of India".
Citing the example of Indian scientists working a century ago, the
president said they delivered lectures in a language that lay
people could understand and thus motivated a generation of people
to move towards scientific endeavour.
"Culture of excellence is the second nature of creative
scientists. Eminent scientists of the world have always been
concerned as to how their understanding of natural phenomena could
be applied to solve social problems of the future," said Mukherjee.
He also released the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
that aspires to position India among the top five global
scientific powers by 2020.
The president noted that the unique identity number Aadhaar was a
transformational application of technology which focuses on
electronic transfer of benefits directly to the beneficiaries of
various social sector schemes.
Stating that India was expected to emerge as a major economic
power by 2035, he said the country should also emerge as a major
knowledge power with high human and societal values.
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