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The presidential address of D. N. Wadia at the, thirteenth annual general meeting of the National Institute of Sciences of India, after referring to the ten-acre site which the Institute has acquired for its building and to the organisation and expansion of its secretariat and mentioning the formation of two strong committees to advise the Government on research in the Indian academies, institutes and universities, was devoted to a discussion of the role of science in building the new India. Science, in its comprehensive application to problems of human existence, is the one agency which, in the transition period through which India is passing, will lift the country out of its abnormal economic and industrial depression and put it on the high road to progress and human welfare. The first requisite is that India should align her scientific organisation with that of the progressive countries of the world, and Mr. Wadia welcomed the multiplying ties of India's leading men of science with representative men of science of Great Britain, the United States, the U.S.S.R. and the rest of Europe, referring in particular to the value of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, of the international scientific liaison offices, and to the work of the Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference and of the Commonwealth Scientific Official Conference.
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Science in the New India. Nature 160, 253 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160253b0
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