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India should aim for economic development: Advisor
Manipal,
Oct
26:
Principal
Scientific
Advisor
to
the
Government
of
India
and
Chairman
of
(TIFAC)
'Technology
Information
Forecasting
and
Assessment'
R
Chidambaram
today
stressed
that
India
should
aim
to
be
economically
developed,
scientifically
advanced
and
go
for
strong
defence
set
ups
with
advanced
scientific
capability,
requiring
long
term
sustainability
of
the
GDP
growth
rate.
Inaugurating the three-day TIFAC-CORE (Centres of Relevance and Excellence) Meet, TCM, organised by the Manipal Life Science Centre of Manipal University here, Dr Chidambaram stated that development without security was vulnerable and security without development was meaningless, as these two were the two faces of the same coin.
A robust innovation system was required with proper interaction between institutions and industries. The TIFAC had a vital role to play in this regard, he said.
He noted that the academic institutions had possessed good potential in R and D, while industries were lacking required manpower to take up R and D activity, which was coming in the way of overall development of the sector.
He said even as many Indian SMEs could now produce world class products it only included few sectors such as auto components. The SMEs had little access to modern R and D activities.
UNI
