President APJ Abdul Kalam has called for proper utilisation of budgetary allocations of different ministries dealing with various aspects of science and technology.
Speaking at the 94th Indian Science Congress, here, on Friday, Kalam said raising of budgetary allocation for science and technology from the existing level of less than 1% of the GDP to 2%, as announced by the Prime Minister, would not be enough. There should be full utilisation of the allocated funds. Kalam said, he found approximately more than 20 % of funds have remained unutilized during 2005-2006. The total fund utilisation would work out to only 0.25% of the GDP.?