well said!!!. As you have rightly pointed out, most of the students take up science only if they have not scored well to take engineering and medicine. It is taken as the last option. Only handful pursue science and research out of passion. We can easliy notice that a software engineer with B.E or M.C.A is held in high esteem than a Scientist-C with Ph.D. In India, education is weighed upon with money. Govt should encourage students to take up science in future. After all, Science is the mother of technology.