Bengali:
Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy said on Tuesday that the country faces enormous challenges in the field of scientific research despite the country’s feat of producing COVID-19 vaccines and injecting vaccines. vaccination for the people in the country.
He also highlighted the deaths of 66 children in the Gambia in Africa from consuming Indian-made cough syrup and that shamed the country.
He was speaking at an event to present the Infosys Prize to six Infosys Science Foundation brights. The prize is worth 1,00,000 USD.
This is an achievement for companies that have produced and supplied billions of COVID-19 vaccines, Mr. Murthy said.
The Director of IT highly appreciated the implementation of the new national education policy, based on the recommendation of the Committee of Professor Kasturirangan.
The founder of Infosys highly appreciates Professor Gagandeep Kang and several others who have become fellows of the Royal Society in London, and Professor Ashok Sen has won the Millenium Prize.
“These are all encouraging and welcome events that show that India is on an absolute trajectory but we still have huge challenges,” said the IT tycoon.
“There is not a single Indian higher education institution in the top 250 of the global university rankings published in 2020. Not even the vaccines we manufacture, or are based on. technology of advanced countries, or based on research of developed countries. world. As a result, we have yet to produce vaccines against dengue and chikungunya, which have plagued us for the past 70 years,” said Mr Murthy.
Mr Murthy said: “The deaths of 66 children in the Gambia from an Indian-made cough syrup have brought unimaginable shame and discredit on their drug regulator. I.
However, he said that there is a solution, it is a difficult solution and according to him, the country has chosen it.
According to Mr. Murthy, many experts attribute India’s inability to use research to solve immediate pressing problems due to a lack of profound curiosity from an early age, a lack of connection between research applied and pure, inadequate advanced research infrastructure in higher education institutions, insufficient funding and no order of delay in creating incentives for research and no enough forums to share knowledge with global research institutions.
The Infosys founder argues that money is not the main resource for success in invention or innovation.
Mr. Murthy says there are two key ingredients to success in research – the first is reorienting teaching in schools and colleges towards asking Socratic questions and relating what they learn in the classroom. class with real-world problems around them, instead of passing exams after rote learning.
The second step is for researchers to focus on solving immediate problems. Such a mindset will inevitably lead to tackling bigger challenges, he argues.
The software industry icon says IITs are also falling victim to rote learning.
“Even our IITs fall victim to this syndrome, thanks to the tyranny of training classes,” says Murthy.
He said the nation’s progress on the economic and social front depends on the quality of scientific and technological research.
According to Murthy, research develops in an environment that honors and respects intellectuals, meritocracy and their support and approval from society.
“Therefore, it is necessary to recognize and reward the outstanding research efforts of researchers. That way, we will encourage not only other researchers, but also model and inspire young people to consider a career in research,” Murthy said before announcing the researchers. research was selected for the Infosys-2022 Award.
He says scientific research is about curiosity, audacity, healthy skepticism and the questioning status quo.
He told the meeting that the country has enjoyed a healthy development of scientific and technological progress over the past few years.
The winners of the Infosys Prize-2022 are: Engineering and Computer Science – Suman Chakraborty; humanities – Sudhir Krishnaswamy; life sciences – Vidita Vaidya; Mathematical sSciences – Mahesh Kakde; physical sciences – Nissim Kanekar, and social sciences – Rohini Pande.
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