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IN his opening address to the symposium on "Post-War Organisation of Scientific Research in India" held at Calcutta during September 27 and 28, 1943 (Science and Culture, 9, 135; October 1943), Sir J. C. Ghosh urged that the time is ripe for a critical examination of the facilities for scientific research and training that are available in India, and for drawing up plans for improving and co-ordinating such facilities. At present the agencies responsible for this work are the universities, the central institutes under the Government of India, the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, the Indian Research Fund Association, the Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, the endowed research institutes like the Indian Institute of Science, the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, the Bose Research Institute, etc., and the research laboratories of industrial concerns like the Tata's. Sir J. C. Ghosh suggests an annual grant of Rs. 2.6 crores for research, and an equal grant for training research workers, as reasonable in the first three years after the War. With regard to organization, he suggests that the National Research Council of Canada rather than Russian methods may form the best model for India. Laboratories concerned mainly with short-range programmes of research should be administered by an all-India national research council through properly constituted research committees functioning on their governing bodies. With regard to developmeat work, he advocates the formation of a corporation of the type of Research Enterprises Ltd. managed by the National Research Council of Canada. Such a development corporation should be encouraged to take risks by an annual State grant, and introduce into industry and agriculture the inventions and processes worked out under the national research council.
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Scientific Research and Development in India. Nature 153, 429–430 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153429c0
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