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A REPORT has been issued, in the Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India (11, Pt. 4, 161–370), of a symposium on the centralization of scientific research in India, held on July 23, 1945, which was opened by the president of the Institute, Mr. D. N. Wadia. Mr. Wadia, after referring to the necessity of taking into account the effect of a central policy on the work of various scientific institutions in India, emphasized the benefits likely to accrue from a central organisation for scientific research. Central direction should not involve too mucn interference or loss of independence in the pursuit of science. Dr. J. A. Dunn supported the liaison and co-ordination of research by a single member and department of a central government as the only course which could be wisely pursued, but he was not in favour of the whole of the country's research being brought under one department. He outlined a scheme for a central council for scientific and industrial research, with provincial and State councils, a committee of central scientific departments and other boards and committees as required. Dr. A. C. Ukil advocated the co-ordination of researches but without power of interference with the findings of the National Research Council, which should be the supreme central body to organise research throughout the country ; no Government department, he said, should be allowed to maintain its separate research section, independent of the guidance of that Council.
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Scientific Research in India. Nature 161, 513 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161513b0
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