If you want to sucessed in evolving new technologies, Start paying our scientist perk that they deserve, Like any MNC....Otherwise there will be very less talented people who would like to work for you. Theses daya every body is in race to secure there future first and then comes country. You need to think on it sincearly if you want to attract good talent. If done so you wont require foreign partisipation to develop new technologies, world will be behind us.
RE:Dear Mr. Banerjee
by kundan kumar on Jun 05, 2008 06:16 PM Permalink
Apart from the perks..it is also important to have foreign collaborations..you can not keep reinventing the wheel..the technological advancements in the world is quite ahead of where we are now..this means we need to first catch up with the best in the world...also, it is imperative to learn what is happening in the other defense sectors..we can not afford to remain aloof....moreover..only perks are not going to solve the problem...there needs to be further effort towards having more educated people joining the laboratories..for instance...it can be made more or less mandatory to obtain a phD preferably from foreing countries to get further promotion...Pakistan has made great efforts in this direction during Musharraf time. We can also motivate our scientists most of whom join after bachelors to do their masters and phD in due course and then when you have a work force who is mostly phD..of course you are one of the best..germany seems to be going in this drection only..
RE:Dear Mr. Banerjee
by guk on Jun 05, 2008 07:06 PM Permalink
India cannot become a scientifically advanced nation for the simple reason that there is a lack of respect for scientific profession. Education is a means to get a well payed job rather than a pursuit of knowledge. There is a lack of respect for knowledge in Indian society. A person successful in acquiring wealth through nook and crook is held in high esteem even if he is uneducated. A majority of students go to US and other countries to do higher studies because that happens to be the easiest way to get settled abroad. Initially they enroll for masters course after which they try for a job. If they fail they continue on to PhD. In western countries like US, France Germany etc., many if not all do science because they have a passion for it knowing fully well that they can get paid more in a career outside. How many of us Indians have that kind of passion? Even if somebody had such a passion he would be ridiculed by the society.
RE:Dear Mr. Banerjee
by saigeetha jagannathan on Jun 06, 2008 11:33 AM Permalink
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.
RE:Dear Mr. Banerjee
by Dharmendra Kumar on Jun 05, 2008 06:14 PM Permalink
DRDO should not keep in dark.they are telling this after 15 yrs.if dont have capability one should not commit for that. ISRO scientist also working on same salary category but result is totally diffrnt. DRDO is failed in its goal. As it is govt job so no accountabilty of anyone. do or dont do anything there is no risk on jobs.
RE:RE:Dear Mr. Banerjee
by kundan kumar on Jun 05, 2008 06:19 PM Permalink
There is a big difference in ISRO approach and DRDO approach. ISRO works in the name of the civil applications and it is relatively much easier to obtain technologies for these applications...but for DRDO it becomes difficult to obtain the same technologies....moreover, DRDO has 50 labs and it is of course difficult to maintain the efficiency of such a vast number of laboratories..and lastly..it has to be agreed that ISRO has done a better human management job....
