Kunal RastogiAIR 15 · CSE 2023 · 237 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening
Recently, National Research Foundation Bill was introduced by Union Govt to leverage India's talent to become Knowledge Economy and Vishwa guru Indian Knowledge Economy
Body · points and prose
Research foundation bill, 2023
- based on US National Science foundation
- Focus on industry-academia linkage.
- Under the Chairmanship of PM and esteemed educationist
- 50000cr Corpus over next 5 years
Indian Knowledge Economy
- Rich history starting from → Sushruta, Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta.
- However, post Macaulay Minutes, India Knowledge became subject to British
- Even in Post-independent India, Knowledge was primarily contained within elite institution like IIT, DRDO
NRF, 2023 → democratising research ecosystem
(1) Extend the funding given by govt beyond traditional IIT to include regional colleges, private University, Research labs. eg → UGC → 65% funding to IIT
(2) Extend scope of research beyond science to include art, Humanity, biological research
(3) Streamline regulations to encourage private investment in addition to govt grant of 50000 crore → increase R&D → 0.6% → 2% of GDP.
(4) Encourage foreign collaboration - eg → SPARC
(5) Synergise existing scheme like KIRAN, CURIE, ASPIRE for optimum allocation
(6) Prioritise Research by woman, SC/ST Scientist for inclusive growth model
Limitation
(1) Bureaucratisation of fund allocation process. (2) Limited Private participation in the governing board (3) laws like recent IIM Amendments, 2023 further increase regulatory burdens (4) stringent background check for foreign collaboration (5) limited Higher Education Private labs → so reduced scope of giving them grants.
Way forward → Israel model of statutory R&D budget → USA → use fund of fund methods.
Close · a way forward
can be useful guidelines to combine Knowledge economy with demographic dividend to realise Vishwaguru Status