Think differently for innovative ideas: AP CM to students

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today exhorted students and faculty members of higher educational institutions to think out of the box and come up with innovations for rapid progress.
Inaugurating the first 'Andhra Pradesh Science Congress (APSC)' here at the SV University, he said students and teachers should think and act differently to get innovative ideas.
Naidu also asked the Vice-Chancellors of universities to see that at least one incubation centre was set up immediately in their respective institutions and play a pro-active role for startup facilities in villages also.
"Integrate technology and best practices and also ensure collaboration with the best universities in the country and also abroad to impart the best education to enable the students seize the latest technologies and methods to keep them abreast," he said.

Pointing that field study formed 40 per cent of curriculum in foreign universities, he asked the students in the country not to confine themselves to classrooms but focus on field studies.
Naidu urged the universities to include leading members of industries and eminent personalities in decision-making bodies for university-industry collaboration.

The Chief Minister also said that in line with the Centre's Digital India programme, his government would provide net connectivity with a bandwidth of 20 MBPS to every home in villages in the state by July, 2016 at an outlay of Rs 320 crore.
This would be increased to 50 MBPS later for the meaningful implementation of e-governance.

He directed all the universities in the state to provide Wi Fi facilities in their campuses within a month.
Becoming nostalgic, he recalled his student days in the SV University and said "I have learnt all political lessons here.
"It gave me my political birth while Lord Balaji (of the famous hill shrine in Tirumala) gave me a new lease of life by saving me from the accident (bomb attack by Naxal at Alipiri near here in 2003)," he said.
Clarifying the position, the spokesperson for CERN said,
"This video is a work of fiction showing a contrived scene. CERN and its on-site accommodation fills up with scientists from across the world coming to CERN as part of their work. Work at CERN can take place 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with shift work and data analysis. Persons that are authorised to access the CERN site sometimes let their sense of humour go too far, and that is what has happened on this occasion. The video was filmed from an office building; strict safety systems are in place to prevent any unauthorised access to technical and experimental facilities. CERN does not condone this kind of spoof, which breaches CERN's professional guidelines, and is currently carrying out an internal investigation."

Jokes apart, work at CERN conjures up many horrifying images, in 2008 when the world's largest atom smasher was being started up there was an uncalled for global scare that the Large Hadron Collider would generate black holes that could gobble up the earth.
It was a global scare but in India it peaked when a 16 year old girl from Madhya Pradesh got so scarred that she allegedly committed seeing the news reports. Obviously, the world did not die but reason did since CERN at that time failed to communicate effectively that its experimentation would not end in a doomsday scenario.

Later CERN did make an attempt to bust such myths, but today social media is ablaze with hyped accounts of non-scientific happenings inside the 27-km circular tunnel embedded deep inside the earth and straddling both Switzerland and France which houses the world's human largest experiment.
It was here that the so called 'God Particle' or the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2013. The mere nick naming of the particle as 'God Particle' makes people believe CERN is trying to prove that god exists.
Even though CERN asserts "that it exists to understand the mystery of nature for the benefit of humankind." That India did not erupt on what could be termed as a 'desecration' of venerated iconic Indian god gifted with love by Indian people and placed on an alien soil, only showed that rationality prevailed among the vast Indian masses so prone to being swayed by emotions of religion.

Indian atomic scientists involved with the gifting of the giant Chola Bronze statue were flabbergasted that such indiscretion and insensitivity could have happened within the highly secure premises where entry and exit is both highly controlled. It seems irrationality knowns no national boundaries.