In a TV news today, on 14th July,2013 , the chief Minister of Gujarat ,Mr Narendra Modi has emphasized the need of linking research with Agriculture production in the country. He has blamed that research in India is merely to award Ph.D degree to the research student with no other utility.
It's difficult to disagree with him with regards to present situation of research in the country-may be in Agriculture or any other field . Keep aside the research conducted by Ph.D scholars, even the work of established scientists are not cared by any organization-either government (both state and Centre) or private one.- even where government has spent lot of money to carry out the research in that field. It will be better to substantiate my statement with the facts.
The premier organization of Agricultural research of the country, Indian Council of Agricultural Research , awarded National Fellowship in the year 1995 to the undersigned to work on animal schistosomiasis -a disease silently killing our domestic animals or causing production losses in whole of the country. This project was sanctioned with staff , research fellows and some important equipments.
The whole man power worked seriously on this disease continuously for nine years and published good number of research papers highlighting some new diagnostic methods and also about the future problems which should be tackled to get rid of the problem from our animal industry; also what measures to be followed to protect man from this infection (schistosomiasis is a zoonotic disease) . The work on the disease has been carried out in the country since last one hundred years ;some other institutes were also working on the infection and many research theses have been produced on this subject..
As there was no book on the subject I worked hard and the book on the topic " Schistosomes and schistosomiasis in South Asia" was published by Springer India Pvt Ltd in 2012 for the benefit of scientific community as well as for our administrators .
The crux of the problem is that no one- neither Indian Council of Agriculture Research nor state or central government has ever tried to contact me to solve the problem in any geographical area- the problem of schistosomiasis is still existing with same vigor and hurdles and no one is interested to consult the expert for implementing or even verifying the new innovations. It appears that all our reports have been dumped in the files with no one caring to check what has been done in the country on a particular subject.
Thus , it appears that research in India is not for the benefit of its masses but only for award of Ph.D or only for "swant sukhaya".
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