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for biotech products, to be issued within sixty days.
6) An action plan will be prepared to make India a global platform
for research, design, and development. The Government will give
incentives foreign companies that spend huge amounts on R&D to set
up their R&D centers here. Our target is to see that at least 50% of the
"Fortune 500" companies have a sizeable part of their R&D facility
located in India.
7) The NDA Government is proud that a reversal of "brain drain" -
"brain gain" -has started in recent years, for the first time in
Independent India. We will convert this "trickle" into a "torrent" by
creating attractive conditions for the best Indian talent abroad to
return to India or to participate in collaborative work. We will also
encourage foreign scientists and professionals to come and work here
in big numbers. The time has come to declare India as the land of
opportunity for top-order talent in diverse fields.
Science & Technology
The NDA believes that science and technology have a vital role in the
success of almost every initiative that figures in this Agenda-from the
Second Green Revolution to raising India's social development profile.
We are proud that our Government not only checked declining support
to India's science and technology establishment, but placed spending
on S&T on an upward curve.
1) Our focus in the coming five years will be three-pronged:
(a) further encourage public and private spending on S&T.
(b) further improve the outcome and output of this spending to match
global standards.
(c) further integrate the activities and goals of our S&T institutions
with India's overarching goal of becoming a Developed Nation by 2020.
2) The Science and Technology Policy will be vigorously
implemented.
3) Space research, peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and civilian
applications of defense research will be further promoted, building on
India's self-reliant strides in these areas. Partnership between CSIR,
DRDO, ICAR, ICMR, ISRO, BARC, IITs, universities, and other
government-supported research institutions with Indian industry will be
speedily expanded.
4) ISRO's ambitious "Chandrayan" program, which aims to send
India's first space mission to the moon before 2008, will be fully
supported.
5) Further steps will be taken to remove bureaucratism in the
functioning of our S&T institutions. Each of them will be encouraged to
develop a bold vision for their future growth to achieve dominance
internationally.
6) Fundamental research in diverse fields will be promoted.
7) Recent efforts to preserve, catalogue, and develop India's
indigenous traditions in science and technology will be further
encouraged.
8) Efforts at creating a scientific temperament in society, raising
popular awareness about science, and promoting the spirit of
innovation will be both recognized and supported.
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