“The entire country can be divided in five zones so that each zone can
have a science city, so that number of science centres can be there whereby
rural population and youngsters can have a lot of access,” said Mr Chowdary
while inaugurating an ASSOCHAM Summit on ‘India: Entrepreneurial, Creative
& Innovative.’
“In addition to that if we create a proper ecosystem like bird
migration we can definitely attract many scientists from foreign countries
because of environmental conditions,” he added.
“Our country gives them very good weather conditions as there are many
countries where we do not have productivity more than 4-5 months, at the most
six months, so that is one area where we are seriously thinking,” further said
Mr Chowdary.
He also informed that Ministry of Science & Technology and Earth
Sciences was working on a system called ‘five year rolling plan,’ to measure
the plans and their implementation for both politicians and the bureaucrats.
“One of my observation, particularly for the past 18 months having been
in the government, we keep doing planning but we do not have any proper tools
to measure whether we have achieved or not,” said Mr Chowdary.
“So if we can introduce a rolling plan for five years, the successor
can always refer what has happened, what was being planned, to what extent one
has achieved and what are the things to be achieved,” he said.
Highlighting that is not difficult to address supply side related
issues using information technology (IT) tools, the minister said that both the
government and the industry need to look towards improving the consumption side
by creating a proper ecosystem.
“There is a need for us to spend more time on blueprint rather than on
trying to execute, particularly from government’s point of view, as once
blueprint is prepared properly with all kinds of IT tools the execution can be
done perfectly,” said the minister.
He also stressed upon the need to focus on preventive healthcare so as
to bring all resources together whether it is infrastructure, human resources,
finance and others to prevent maintenance of warm bodies.
“If we spend Rs 100 on preventive health, I think Rs 2,000 in financial
terms can be saved, in addition to this productivity goes up and when that
happens a person will think of earning by himself rather than looking at the
government for freebies, then happiness index will definitely go up,” further
said Mr Chowdary
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