{"id":27627,"date":"2018-10-23T15:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27627"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:39:30","slug":"funding-crunch-is-disrupting-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/funding-crunch-is-disrupting-research\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Funding crunch is disrupting research\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/funding-crunch-is-disrupting-research\/article24874356.ece\">\u2018Funding crunch is disrupting research\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News-<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An editorial published is the \u2018<em>Proceedings of the Indian National Academy of Sciences\u2019<\/em> highlights the issue of poor funding in R&amp;D.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Important Facts-<\/p>\n<p><b><strong><u>2. Issues:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Funding for science has remained <strong>static at about 0.7%<\/strong> of the GDP for last 20 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Untimely release of funds<\/strong> disrupts research work.<\/li>\n<li>There has been <strong>overemphasis on translational research <\/strong>and basic research has been neglected.<\/li>\n<li>Fund crunch has also been responsible for <strong>low morale<\/strong> among researchers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. Contrasting News:<\/p>\n<p>According to Secretary of Department of science &amp; Technology (DST):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Funding for science has doubled in 2017-18 when compared to 2014-15.<\/li>\n<li>Funding has increased by 65% for Department of Biotechnology, 45% for Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and 90% for DST.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Funding crunch is disrupting research\u2019 News- An editorial published is the \u2018Proceedings of the Indian National Academy of Sciences\u2019 highlights the issue of poor funding in R&amp;D. Important Facts- 2. Issues: Funding for science has remained static at about 0.7% of the GDP for last 20 years. Untimely release of funds disrupts research work. There&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/funding-crunch-is-disrupting-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Funding crunch is disrupting research\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704862623},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27627","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}