{"id":208717,"date":"2022-09-29T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208717"},"modified":"2022-09-29T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:37:25","slug":"talent-recognition-on-awards-to-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/talent-recognition-on-awards-to-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Talent, recognition &#8211; on awards to scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cTalent, recognition\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>29th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Science and Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Importance of awards<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the rationale behind central government&#8217;s proposed move to have a re look at awards, prizes and fellowships. It also explains the issues faced by scientific researchers if it is implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Home Ministry has been given this task to have a re look.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the rationale behind <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/government-to-reduce-number-of-awards-given-for-scientific-research\/\"><strong>reducing the number of awards to scientists<\/strong><\/a><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is in accordance with PM\u2019s vision regarding \u201cTransformation of the Awards Ecosystem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Central government had modified the system of the Padma awards.<\/p>\n<p>It ensures that ordinary people doing selfless work get the opportunity to get awards rather than well-known personalities who are repeatedly given these awards.<\/p>\n<p>The government wants a transparent selection process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the issues with the proposed move?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is easy to set benchmarks in the field of sports and gallantry awards. But it is not the case with scientific research. It involves subjectivity.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to train talented youth to be Olympians or international cricketers but impossible to create an Einstein or a Chandrasekhar.<\/p>\n<p>It is not easy to recognise early carrier potential. There is a lot of subjectivity involved. Fewer awards could increase discontent. Many talented youths can miss the opportunity to get awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cTalent, recognition\u201d published in The Hindu on 29th September 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Science and Technology Relevance&#8211; Importance of awards News&#8211; The article explains the rationale behind central government&#8217;s proposed move to have a re look at awards, prizes and fellowships. It also explains the issues faced by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/talent-recognition-on-awards-to-scientists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talent, recognition &#8211; on awards to scientists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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-208717","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":1704848444},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208717","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}