RESEARCH POLICY:
A New Road for Indian Science
Pallava Bagla
BANGALORE--Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has laid out a new road map for science and technology that would double the country's spending on research over 5 years, improve training, and streamline bureaucracy. Vajpayee also proposed "a new funding mechanism for basic research" that observers likened to the U.S. National Science Foundation.