Its time for India to focus on research: Sibal

BANGALORE, INDIA: India's figures in research, university standards and patents, fall behind the impressive line. And there is a need to create a culture of filing patents and incentivizing the research and development in the country.

This was the observation made by none other than Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, who was the chief guest at the Infosys Science Foundation ceremony here today, where the winners of the Infosys Prize 2009 were announced.

Addressing the gathering via video conferencing from his office in New Delhi, Sibal said those who won this award are jewels of India. And such events should be taken to encourage the research in the country.

“The science research community in India is facing a lag against the global counterparts. And therefore Indian government, academia, businesses, and society altogether should nurture the community to grow and compete at global level,” he said.

Sibal highlighted that in a small country like Scandinavia, there are around 6000 research scholars for every one million people, while in India the number is around 500 people for every million.

Taking the example of Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the India-born scientist who recently won Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Sibal said, “Dr. Venki had around four patents under his name, while other scientists, who had won similar accolades years back had around 150 patents flied under them.

He added, “Out of the total number of patent filed worldwide, only ten per cent come from India. Young India should focus on intermediate findings and get more Intellectual rights under them.”

The minister stressed that India must invest in science and technology research in various areas and hinted over bringing the concern as a bill in the Central Legislature to bring out world-class universities in inDIa to make them more competitive.

The award ceremony for the Infosys Prize 2009 will be held on January 4, 2010, in New Delhi, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will give away awards.

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