India unable to keep pace with R&D of other nations

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Ahmedabad, January 12:: Indian science has been unable to catch up with the pace of research and development happening in other countries, including China, said Secretary Department of Science and Technology, T Ramasami.

"The growth of Indian science and technology has not been keeping pace with the rate of development of research happening in other countries," said Ramasami.

Delivering the lecture on ‘Long-term horizon of Indian Science’ at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) last night, Ramasami said, "India is growing very slowly as compared to global trends."

He said India had a paltry 157 researchers for every million people as compared to China (which has 633 researchers per million people), USA (4,526), Japan (5,085), Germany (3,222), Finland (7,431) and Sweden (5,171).

"China has five to seven times larger investment in science than India in terms of human and physical capitals," Ramasami said, adding, "India has invested less in the past and so returns are less."