Today one of
the greatest problems that the whole nation confronts is of lack of a robust
and healthy Research and Development (R&D) environment in the whole nation.
Even after more than half a century of independence and being counted among one
of the biggest economies and rising nations of the world, still we need to
export basic ammunition, choppers, fighter jets, submarines, ships and various
other things. If we compare India in terms of R&D department with BRICS
nations then too we fare pretty miserably spending only 0.87% of our GDP on
this crucial industry as compared to Brazil which spend 1.17%, Russia 1.25%,
China 1.70% and South Africa 0.93% in the financial year 2009-10.
Though the
amount of money being spent in R&D industry has incremented manifold but
still we continue to struggle to have a good and confident R&D industry in
the nation. Amusingly people can spend Rs. 4000 crores on crackers but when Rs.
450 crores are spent on our space mission, people take a grudge at it saying
the money spent could have helped the poor and the needy. Isn’t it disgusting? The
sum of Rs. 4000 crores in good because it was spent on petty, low grade and
cheap fun but a sum of Rs.450 crore is burden because it was spent to give an
impetus to the budding scientists and to plagued Indian space system. What a
pity! The thing explains it all.
One of the
biggest problems that our R&D industry is facing is clearly of low
expenditures by the authority on this vital sector. Our scientists have great
plans, wonderful minds and ingenious set up for things, they just need
investment in order to arrange for various things need and they can make much
better stuff that Russians or Americans (Even American bank of our scientists
who constitute 36% of total workforce in NASA). The mangalyaan mission which
cost even lesser than a Hollywood film and did its work with utter perfection
is a great paradigm which clearly proves that our R&D’s mettle all over the
universe. But still, it doesn’t enjoy the amount of confidence and funds that
its worth and this is what’s annihilation this humongously worthy industry.
This is the reason why we have to approach France, Russia and America for their
warfare ammunitions and other materials and those materials which they have
themselves stopped using.
Today India stands
on a crucial phase in life where we need to make choices, we need to decide
priorities and R&D must be our top priority if we want to “Make in India”
and to transform our manufacturing sector from mundane to extraordinary.”
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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