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?Make India a developed nation?
EMINENT PHYSICIST and former scientific advisor to Prime Minister and Defence Minister Professor M G K Menon asked young scientific officers to put in their collective effort to make India a developed nation.
EMINENT PHYSICIST and former scientific advisor to Prime Minister and Defence Minister Professor M G K Menon asked young scientific officers to put in their collective effort to make India a developed nation.
He asked them to take challenges as opportunities and find solution through innovative approaches. He asked them to direct their energies to frontline work of excellence for growth.
In his keynote address at graduation function of sixth one year orientation course held at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology here this evening, Prof Menon recalled contribution of Dr Homi Bhabha, Dr Raja Ramanna, Vikram Sarabhai and late Jawahar Lal Nehru to the field science and technology and said there is synergistic link between science and technology, as science is the basis of all technologies.
“Therefore, there is no real distinction between various disciplines of science and technology,” he said and cited example of electrical engineering and chemistry that are wholly based on science. He asked scientists to avoid remaining confine to their discipline of diploma or training. He talked about significance of human resource development to remain self-reliant in this field.
Presiding over the function, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dr Anil Kakodkar said that Prospective Research Fund is being set up to support idea-based researches and carry it forward. Asking scientific officers to innovate, he asked them to take risk and move into unchartered territories to come out with frontline work. “Display merit and rest will be taken care of,” Dr Kakodkar remarked.
He informed that nuclear energy research and applications are witnessing a renaissance across the globe and therefore there are several opportunities for youths in this sector. The Chairman, however, expressed the need for a more effective interface between basic research and technological applications.
At the function, Prof Menon awarded gold medal and Homi Bhabha prize of Rs 5,000 to Sonal Jain who topped in this year’s course. She was among 16 scientific officers who were awarded certificates on completing the one-year orientation course.
RRCAT officiating director Dr P D Gupta delivered the welcome address while S Kotaiyya gave vote of thanks.
