Research to save environment needed: Indian Science Congress
Taking potshots at corrupt
politicians, Prof U.C. Mishra, director of the Health, Safety and
Environment Group, BARC, said that one of the problems facing
researchers in India was that politicians used research to make money
for themselves which resulted in the research remaining only on paper.
Prof Mishra was delivering a lecture at the symposium on “Research Needs in the Field of Environmental Sciences” at the ongoing 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) at Mumbai University’s Kalina campus on Wednesday.
Stressing on the need for Indian scientists to compete with their Chinese counterparts in helping realize “Make in India”, Prof Mishra said, “In India, we are making more use of the research done by Chinese scientists in our daily life, which includes appliances that could pose a threat to lives. If the ‘Make in India’ vision is to be achieved, Indian scientists will have to come up with innovations that can better the innovations by Chinese scientists.”
Pointing at the need to improve the quality of goods being manufactured in India, Prof Mishra said if that was done, Indian scientists could progress faster than what China had managed to do so far.
Referring to the ongoing “Clean India” campaign, Prof Mishra said that some political leaders were taking up the broom just to portray themselves to be a part of the campaign. He said that the campaign would not be successful in such a scenario and all stakeholders needed to take it up seriously as a responsibility. He criticized the fact that though the government had made numerous laws for safeguarding the environment, they were of no use as they were not being implemented.
Another speaker R.N. Singh, former director, CSIR-NEERI, said that there was an urgent need to conduct research for the safety of the environment. “The environment is suffering irreparable damage as there is no safe way of disposing off poisonous waste material. Researchers should come up with technologies that will protect the environment,” said Mr Singh.
Prof Mishra was delivering a lecture at the symposium on “Research Needs in the Field of Environmental Sciences” at the ongoing 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) at Mumbai University’s Kalina campus on Wednesday.
Stressing on the need for Indian scientists to compete with their Chinese counterparts in helping realize “Make in India”, Prof Mishra said, “In India, we are making more use of the research done by Chinese scientists in our daily life, which includes appliances that could pose a threat to lives. If the ‘Make in India’ vision is to be achieved, Indian scientists will have to come up with innovations that can better the innovations by Chinese scientists.”
Pointing at the need to improve the quality of goods being manufactured in India, Prof Mishra said if that was done, Indian scientists could progress faster than what China had managed to do so far.
Referring to the ongoing “Clean India” campaign, Prof Mishra said that some political leaders were taking up the broom just to portray themselves to be a part of the campaign. He said that the campaign would not be successful in such a scenario and all stakeholders needed to take it up seriously as a responsibility. He criticized the fact that though the government had made numerous laws for safeguarding the environment, they were of no use as they were not being implemented.
Another speaker R.N. Singh, former director, CSIR-NEERI, said that there was an urgent need to conduct research for the safety of the environment. “The environment is suffering irreparable damage as there is no safe way of disposing off poisonous waste material. Researchers should come up with technologies that will protect the environment,” said Mr Singh.
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