Id;dL.] 21-10- LC NEWS / I PM to scientists: make a break with the past : . I Manmohan favours greater role for private sector in science and technology I P. Sunderarajan Kalobaran Maiti of the Tata NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Institute of Fundamental Manmohan Singh on Research, Mumbai, Wednesday called for grea- B 1 The other recipients are ter participation of the pri- Mitali Mukerji of the Insti- vate sector in science and tute of Genomics and Inte- technology and suggested ' grative Biology, New Delhi; creation of research and de- Sanjeev Galande of the Na- - velopment facilities that F tional Centre for Cell Sci- were owned publicly, but ence DCCS], Pune run by the private sector. (presently at the Indian In- "If we are to give a mean- stitute of Science Education ' ing to our search for new and Research, Pune); Sang- ' frontiers in Indian science, hamitra Bandyopadhyay of then a much larger partici- the Indian Statistical Insti- pation of the private sector tute, Kolkata, and Sandeep is essential. We have to lev- Verma of IIT-Kanpur. erage the private sector's 2009 & 2010 The awardees for 2009 in- ' strengths by creating high Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents the Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award to @om clude N. Jayaraman, S.K. right) Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; Dr. Mitali Mukerji impact collaboration ... Let Satheesh, Giridhar Madras ' there be publicly-owned of the Institute of Oenomics and Integrative Biology; Dr. Charusita Chakravarty of the Indian Institute and J.R. Haritsa of the IISc.; and privately-operated of Technology, Delhi; and Dr. Shubha Tole of the Tata Institute oYFundamenta1 Researth, Mumbai, in Amitabh Joshi of JNCASR; world-class R&D facilities," New Delhi on Wednesday. - PHOTO: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY Abishek Dhar of the Raman he said. Research Institute; Vena- Dr. Singh was speaking at taken advantage of by a service provider, would en- the private sector to invest Dr. Singh also urged pally Suresh of the Universi- a function organised by the larger section of research- sure that the equipment was 'in but which we need for our young scientists to "take on ty of Hyderabad; and S.G. ' Council of Scientific and In- ers. up all the time and that it research to be at global lev- the responsibility of think- Honavar of the L.V. Prasad dustrial Research (CSIqlor The facilities would be on was a services-driven com- el," he said. ing about the future of Indi- Eye Institute, Hyderabad. giving away its prestigious the lines of The Centre for pany. There would also be a In his address, Dr. Singh an science and to take up the The other awardees are: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Genomic Application marketing component in- called upon the scientific mantle of leadership." Charusita Chakravarty of prize for 2009 and 2010. (TCGA) set up here by the volved. community to "make a The coveted Bhatnagar IIT-Delhi; Bhaskar Saha of CSIR's Institute of Genom- breakwiththe past" and cre- prize was given to 20 scien- NCCS; and Rajesh Gopaku- ' Top-end research ics and Integrative Biology uN~contract researchn ate new systems, structures tists - 11 for 2009 and nine mar of the Harish Chandra facilities and the New York-based Mr. Chavan emphasised and methods for pursuing for 2010. Research Institute, Allaha- Interacting with journal- The Chattejee Group. that the initiative did not science that would harness The awardees for 2010 in- bad. ists, Minister of State for Noting that the facility, mean venturing into con- individual excellence clude G.K. Ananthasuresh Dr. Singh also presented . Science and Technology which extended services for tract research but only mak- among scientists to create of the Indian Institute of the CSIR's award for S&T Prithviraj Chavan said the the life sciences sector, was ing available facilities for socially productive outputs. Science OISc.), Bangalore; Innovations for Rural De- Centre 'wanted to create being run round-the-clock research wherein the user ';This is a major challenge Swapan K. Pati and Umesh velopment for 2009 to the top-end research facilities by The Chatterjee Group, pays afee for use of state-of- before the government, .but Vasudeo Waghmare of the Indian Oil Corporation's that would be funded and the Minister said publicly- the-art equipment. more particularly before the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre Research and Development . - owned by the government owned and privately-oper- 'We are trying to find out scientific community. We for Advanced Scientific Re- Centre at Faridabad for its , and run by the private sec- ated meant that the private which are those facilities need to think boldly about search (JNCASR), Banga- 'Servo Agro Spray Oil' for . tor to ensure that they were sector, which would be the that are very expensive for how to go forward," he said. lore; Shubha Tole and pest control in crops. \ .