Why is India lagging behind others??

Science is in itself a miracle. The thing that can create everything out of nothing and can make anything assimilate in nothing. It’s a marvelous thing that can transform anything from rags to riches, make a mother talk to his sitting miles away from her, make people sitting abroad see their families. But actually science is a creation of innovation, innovation comes when provided a stimulus and India gives everything to the budding generation except stimulus, thus killing their innovation, no innovation leaders to no invention at all and hence we still export brilliant students, scientists and doctors but lack them here in our country.

According to 2011-12 statistics, there is much to moan and lament about the condition of science in India. The United States of America and South Korea invested 2.76% and 4.04% of their GDP respectively in their R&D industry as compared to 0.88% spent on the R&D by India. If we look at purchasing power parity too, we lagged behind the world superpowers with whom we compare ourselves regularly. India invested $36.2 Billion whereas China, the United States and South Korea had invested $205.4 billion, $429.1 billion and $58.4 billion respectively in their scientific researches, and the results too are in front of us. Previously the US dominated the world's science, but its share of publication of scientific articles dropped from 26% to 21%. China's share rose from 4.4% to 10.2%. The UK's share declined from 7.1% to 6.5% of the world's papers.

Projecting beyond 2011, the Royal Society said that the landscape would change "dramatically". "China has already overtaken the UK as the second leading producer of research publications, but some time before 2020 it is expected to surpass the US.

Today one of the biggest problems with India is that we have failed at managing our money. In things like science, where investment is a must we focused least while on some petty issues we just disburse out a deluge of money. Even after so many years of independence we people are importing outdated American, French and Russian military equipments, machines, medicines etc. and amusingly these nations have even stopped using the artilleries which we are importing. Such an appalling condition is there with our nation and still we aim at being a super power in the world. If we take a glance at all the superpowers of the world, then actually they all are product of nothing but their scientific advancements.

Today we need to make a clear choice, whether we just want to build castles in the air or are we actually determined and tenacious to become a major world power. Today is the time to think.

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