Satya Pal Singh asks IIT-G to also work on ancient technologies

Union Minister Satya Pal Singh today asked teachers and professors of the Indian Institute of Technology here to work on ancient technologies along with modern innovations, as he exhorted Indians to work towards winning top global awards in science, technology or applied science.

Singh, the union minister of state for HRD in charge of higher education, told the 20th Convocation of IIT-Guwahati here that the professors should explore ancient technology and work on it to provide a judicious balance between modern and older technologies.

"I would like to tell that India as a whole is doing quite well but as far as innovation and research is concerned, much more is required to be done.

Stating that simply publishing papers in journals would not help, he said:"We have to find out how many journals, how many papers are ultimately ending in patents; any start-ups, or helping some entrepreneurs and starting some industry."