India should not depend on foreign technologies: Kakodkar

Last Updated: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 14:47

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Bhopal: Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr Anil Kakodkar, said that India should not depend on foreign technologies, if the country wants to become the world leader.

"If we remain dependent on foreign technologies, we can never become a world leader. Our education system must produce empowered youths who can pull the country up the ladder," Kakodkar said here on Saturday while addressing the sixth convocation of the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT).

The eminent nuclear scientist said, "Education is a route to enlightenment and a tool for empowerment. If carried out effectively education can transform our youths into a huge human capital and make India one of the most powerful nations in the world."

Stressing on the need for making orientation of students India-centric, he said, it is necessary that the orientation of students should remain India-focused and not focused to the west.

"The domestic lineage between high level of research activities and its conversion into new innovative technologies can be nurtured only on the basis of such an orientation," he said.

Referring to the research activities in India, he said, "The efforts required to translate a laboratory development into an industrially robust product are many times larger. We have not paid sufficient attention to bridging this gap."

PTI

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First Published: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 14:47

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Kumar - Australia
I strongly support Dr Anil idea that we have create a better environment to promote better education, R&D in every sector. If we are not able to promote better education and R&D then indian will never ever be a powerful nation, forget about being superpower.. People shout that population is an Issue, I agree with them. However, we can implement a system (education, R&D, etc) that overcomes the chaos. The population will fall once people are involved in education, jobs. On to education, I an my friend and myself can give a education system where each of them can get a quality education. This system will take benefit of Unique ID system. However, the govt. would not like to support this system as it will lose the cast vote bank. I will say we should give freedom to student to think and present views. But in our education system (basically the science disciplines) the teachers and profs. make students life a hell, because of personal differences. There has to be a law that if the teachers or profs. create hurdles in students research because of personal differences then the profs. or lecturer should be removed from that college or university for ever.

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Dr. Cajetan Coelho -
``Orientation of students should remain India-focused`` - Well said.

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sajid - Dubai
yeah i totally agreed with Dr. Kakodkar and we should change our education system or make in a such away to create our youth to invent new of its own, rather follow from west or we should learn something from movies 3 idiots.