S&T R&D = 8% GDP growth
getting the de facto leader of the country to address a congress of scientists is a good way to familiarise the latter with political priorities. But Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's speech at the 90th Indian Science Congress was a disappointment, even by his high poetic standards.
It had two thrust areas. The first was to make s&t play a key role in taking the gdp growth rate to 8 per cent (and improve the rural economy, clearly a politically correct afterthought). The pm's speechwriters badly mixed up
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