MNS: The 100th Session of Indian Science Congress today concluded with a call to bring forward the youth to work for the promotion of science as the youth leadership is a key to the objective of shaping the future of India. The clarion call was given here in Kolkata today by the Chief Guest, West Bengal Governor Shri M.K. Narayanan in the valedictory session. Shri Narayanan urged the scientist fraternity of India to become more innovative. He said it will be apt if the proceedings of the Indian Science Congress are made available to the general public in an understandable language so that the science movement gets a boost. He also suggested of bringing a white paper on the ideas which have been discussed during the course of congress. Let us ensure that the concept “Science, technology and innovation for the people” really gets transformed into relevant action, so that the gross national happiness increases in our country, Shri Narayanan added.
The Valedictory session began with a report on the events held during the 100th Session of Indian Science Congress presented by Dr. T.Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. The report mentioned of twenty five special features of the 100th year of Indian Science. He said Ten Important recommendations emanating from the focal theme of the 100th session of Indian Science Congress are:
Special effort to attract talent and develop Human Resource for science, technology and innovation in a mission, Special drive to readjust governance processes in the university systems for rejuvenation of research in academic sector by implementation of recommendations of several committees which have made excellent recommendations, Strengthening of Public and Private Partnerships in Research and Development sector and create a policy environment for increasing significantly the investment of the private sector into R&D, Enhance the public outreach of science through effective communication with a focus on Public and political understanding of science and the ramifications of new and emerging technologies of relevance to social problems, Interconnect various arms of Indian science sector and link discovery processes in science to problem solving responsibilities of the research and development activities of the country, While India’s participation In mega Science is welcomed, special effort may be required to develop the Human Resource critical to the and investments planned, Challenging needs for food and nutrition, energy and environment, water and sanitation, affordable health care would require new modes of pursuing scientific research.
Indian science sector needs to develop a suitable strategy and road map, Climate change and other global issues would require world wide collaborations and therefore new models would need to be developed involving global alliances, Youthful leadership in science sector is key to the objective of shaping the future of India through science. Leadership pipeline for science is of high priority, A small committee of five under the chair of Dr. Geetha Bali may be constituted to capture the major recommendations emanating from the 100th session of Indian Science Congress in a time bound manner. For this, cooperation of the coordinators of various sessions and presidents of different sectional committees is solicited.
He said said DST l has already been submitted a proposal to the Finance Ministry for creation of a Corpus in the Centenary Year for supporting Indian Science Congress. A decision has also been taken by the Executive Committee that the Centenary Building infrastructure would be created at the present location. Speaking on the occasion Dr. M.S.Swaminathan, Dr. M.S. Emeritus Chairman and Chief Mentor of M.S.Swaminathan Research Centre, Chennai said as frontier science progresses, more and more of such issues of public concern will grow. Nanotechnology will also create fears and apprehensions.
The role of scientists in the area of public information and education will increase. We need a cadre of Science Communicators possessing both proficiency in science and mastery of communication.
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