Science Congress
It is quite unfortunate that the Department of Science and Technology and the Indian Science Congress do not see eye to eye. The crux of the problem lies in the government’s unwillingness to accord complete autonomy to the Science Congress in the selection of scholarly papers to be presented. Some of the government-sponsored papers presented at an annual meeting a few years ago had nothing to do with science. To restore the formidable reputation of the Congress, the government must keep its hands off the meet and leave the selection of papers to scientists.
Kurian Mathew,
