| Indian research sector heading for collapse | | | Our Bureau / Kolkata December 18, 2004 | | | |
| The Centre and the states have to take drastic action because the Indian education sector was facing a crisis and heading for collapse, C N R Rao, the Linus Paulin professor at Bangalore’s J N Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (CASR) warned.
| | | | | The country’s global share of published research and meaningful development was declining and fewer and fewer students were pursuing knowledge, he told members of the Bengal Initiative, a think-tank which had organised a seminar on ‘Education in India: Moving Forward’ here.
| | | | | First, the government would have to support education, to the extent of 6 per cent of GDP, as developed nations were doing, and it was suicidal for developing nations like India to even think of discontinuing support to education.
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