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News: <\/span><\/b>The Union Ministry of Science and Technology budgetary allocation in the <\/span>current financial year (2022-23) <\/span><\/b>has seen a drop from the last year. The 2022-2023 Union Budget has seen a drop of 3.9% from last year.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The purpose is to understand the world better. It is a highly competitive field among the nations.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The funding of science and technology has often been touted as a marker of social advancement.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The research in India is primarily sustained by <\/span>direct funding<\/span><\/b> from the government. There is little participation from the private sector.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n India\u2019s share in the global R&D expenditure is at 1-3% of the global total. However, the share of the U.S. and China is around 25% and 23% respectively.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The proportion of <\/span>qualified researchers<\/span><\/b> is very low in India. In 2017, there were 255 researchers per million people in India in contrast to 8,342 per million in Israel, 7,597 in Sweden and 7,498 in South Korea.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>budgetary allocations<\/span><\/b> have shown a consistent downward trend over a last few years. It varied between 0.6 to 0.8% of GDP over a decade. It is way below the United States, China, Japan, the European Union countries and South Korea.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There is a skewed distribution of funds<\/strong>. Most funding goes to DRDO, Department of Space and Atomic Energy. However, ICAT, CSIR, DST, DBT, MoES and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) received the rest of the 30 to 40% of the public funds.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Despite, jump in the number of universities from 752 to 1,016, and the number of students doing doctoral degrees, the funding remained frozen between 2011 and 2018.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Most of the country\u2019s scientific research is being conducted by government laboratories and a few premier institutes.\u00a0 The agency will lead to democratisation of the knowledge base.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In pursuance to the <\/span>National Education Policy 2020<\/span><\/b>, the government announced to establish a new funding agency called the<\/span> National Research Foundation (NRF).<\/span><\/b> It is expected to bring thousands of colleges and universities under its ambit, therefore<\/span> to boost <\/span>university science research<\/span><\/b> and work in social sciences. The 2021-22 budget announced to offer \u20b910,000 crore every year to this agency starting from 2021, over the next five years,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 2021 budget speech also expressed the intention of investing about <\/span>\u20b94,000 crore <\/span><\/b>over five years for <\/span>deep-ocean research<\/span><\/b> and <\/span>biodiversity conservation<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The government has shown commitment to set up four centres for virological research and development of hydrogen energy. .\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>scientific institutions<\/span><\/b> need more <\/span>autonomous<\/span><\/b>, more participatory, and less bureaucratic functioning as well as a <\/span>vibrant<\/span><\/b> and <\/span>responsive financial system<\/span><\/b> to unleash the fullest potential of Indian science.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n India must choose to break the <\/span>bureaucratic barriers<\/span><\/b> that exist in the government departments and develop innovative ways to help basic research flourish.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The government should release enough funds for scientific research. The R&D spending can be raised to at least 1% of the GDP.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is also important for the private sector to chip in. The government should <\/span>incentivise<\/span><\/b> the private players like tax breaks, etc.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Further, the <\/span>NRF<\/span><\/b> should be set up. It should be independent of political interference, and the related financial commitment. In addition, the <\/span>SERB (Science Engineering Research Board)<\/span><\/b> can be upgraded.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n India can learn a lot from China as it has become a world leader in scientific research in a short span of time.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/strong>: The post is based on article \u201cFunding woes haunts Indian Science<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu<\/strong> on 2<\/strong><\/span>nd May 2022<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News: The Union Ministry of Science and Technology budgetary allocation in the current financial year (2022-23) has seen a drop from the last year. The 2022-2023 Union Budget has seen a drop of 3.9% from last year.\u00a0 What is the significance of science and tech?\u00a0 The purpose is to understand the world better. It is… Continue reading Funding woes haunts Indian Science\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-182351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704888863},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the significance of science and tech?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
Status of India\u2019s R&D expenditure<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
Some of the measures taken to boost scientific research funding in India\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
Way Forward<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n