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• Amit Kumar Singh

  11 October 2007 | 13:50

  My guess.. that major achievements have been made in the areas of Information technology, Pharma and Biotech, nuclear and space science, electronics and defense.

  India has the third largest scientific and technical manpower in the world. About 162 universities produce over 4,000 doctorates and 35,000 post-graduate degrees each year.

  My top areas of Indian science and their regions are follows.. and information about these programs can be find at related Government of India website.

  Atomic Energy
  http://www.dae.gov.in/#

  Space Technology
  http://www.isro.org/

  Electronics
  http://dst.gov.in/

  Biotechnology and Pharma
  http://dbtindia.nic.in/

  Information Technology
  http://www.mit.gov.in/

  Detail links of education and institutions in India can be found at GOI directory..

  http://goidirectory.nic.in/

  I hope this will help..
  Cheers,
  Amit

• mousumi karmakar

  16 October 2007 | 19:36

  Amit Sing in reply to a question Matt Brown has drawn a nice picture of developement of science and tech. in India.I can’t support you Amit, what are the elemenory work of scientists and technologosts of India? Has India done anything elementary work in sc. and tech. after S.N.Bose,Meghnad Saha,C.V. Raman ?The answer is ‘none’. Why?Other than the elemantary work will India be able to continue its race of advancement? Not only India, it is equally true for China.Just for want of it India or China will never be able to topple U.S.A. in any sector of science and technology and automatically it will be true in case of economy and etc.

• Krushna Mavani

  22 October 2007 | 04:42

  Mousami Karmkar says something on ‘Whether India or China can topple US in research’, but being a researcher from India, I would say that the research in India and its progress is at a stage where comparing it with US now and predict something about country’s future research is really difficult :):). There may be some areas where India may play leading role in future. In some views, the scenario does not seem as dark as predicted by Karmkar for total Indian research as there are many youngsters (including many girls) who are keen, enthusiastic and studying science and government policies are improving to favor research.

• Amit Kumar Singh

  22 October 2007 | 16:07

  hmm.. i am very new in research.. so i can’t say much.. how India would be doing in comparision to others..

  But I am smelling a very successful next century for the Indian Science..

  wondering.. why ?? hmm..

  Simple.. big money coming in.. from National and International agencies.. NSF, NIH, Welcome Trust and many international organisation already running projects with Indian universities..

  You can do whatever you want in India.. from Stem Cell to Space Research..

  time is yours..

• Subhra Priyadarshini

  29 October 2007 | 07:45

  Hi Matt,
  Information technology, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals (in that order) would be my line-up. In the first two, India has done remarkably well within just a decade to compete with the best in the world.

  Which regions? Bangalore, Hyderabad (south), Mumbai, Pune (west) and Delhi (the capital) have the best science and R&D facilities. There are several centres of excellence sprinkled across the country too.

• Vaibhav Garud

  20 December 2007 | 09:50

  Hi,
  Matt,

  India is a country with young talent and low cost manpower, Most of the multinational companies have outsourced their jobs in India which has helped in lot more development.
  We are at our best in the firld of IT but still lacking in biotechnology and bioinformatics.
  Pharmaceutical industries in India are on a high note.A lot of research and patents are applicable to these industries.

  In the next 5 years India will be in a position to tackle with the global markets and be a land of opportunites to young Scientist and Engineers.

  Cheers,
  vaibhav

• yugi reddy

  16 February 2008 | 01:43

  I don`t think India has done any significant research in Information Technology, Biotechnology or Pharmaceuticals. The reason we are having an impact is because of “cost of manufacturing” or “cost of services”. I doubt if we can seriously claim leadership in any branch of science. There have been some interesting discoveries once in a while but never a sustained effort in any given branch of Science. The most we can probably claim is some minor branch of particle physics or cosmic ray studies, as these have been funded since times of Homi Bhabha, Meghnad saha and others. The major reason why we do not have a great contribution is because the research base is small. There is a marginal output from the 290 odd universities, most research is done in Govt funded Institutes which rarely have a teaching mandate. Students are exposed to research atmosphere fairly late in their careers and top it off with being a poor country.