Science and technology for sustainable development

摘要

Despite massive input of public funds into scientific research, the lives of the majority in India remain largely untouched by the products of modern science. The causes for this lie primarily within the distorted priorities that characterise the national development process, but also within the attitudes and commitments of the scientific community itself The primary function of science today has to be the eradication of poverty and regeneration of the environmental resource base. Both these goals can easily be achieved if we set up more appropriate institutions for the innovation and delivery of goods and services that directly respond to the basic needs of the people.