NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said science should be at the centre of policy-making and stressed that the Centre and states have to “cooperate and collaborate” with the scientific community to frame modern policies that meet local needs such as affordable housing, promote climate-resilient agriculture and boost circular economy through waste processing.
“We’ll have to simultaneously work on multiple fronts to make India a global centre of research and innovation during the ‘Amrit Kaal’ (in the next 25 years)... This is the need of the hour. Every state must emphasise on innovation to bring out specific solutions for local problems,” said the PM while addressing via video-conference the first-of-its-kind Centre-State Science Conclave being held in Ahmedabad. He urged the stakeholders to take the country’s scientific institutions out of the “state of silos” for their optimum utilisation.
