Why R&D spending is low priority for Indian Government?

In any developing country that too in democracy, elected Govt wants to retain power hence want to make citizen happy with shortcuts I.e freebies, subsidies etc.

R&D takes much longer period to justify the money put in it hence Govt shows less interest in R&D expenditure.

In nutshell R&D is long term vision while our politicians are in hurry to score brownie points hence gives less priority to R&D.

As per Economic survey of India 2017-18, India’s spending on R&D is just 0.6% of GDP vs that of Israel 4.3%, South Korea 4.2%, US 2.8% and China 2.1%. China’s absolute R&D spending is 20 times more than India.

Universities play a very important role in R&D but shockingly not even 1 Indian university is in top 300 universities of the world. At the same time, private sector plays a very important role in innovation but as per Forbes reports, there are only 26 Indian companies in the list of the top 2,500 global R&D spenders compared to 301 Chinese companies. This means the infrastructure for innovation is lacking in India at the grass-root level.

Currently, a bulk of R&D expenditure goes from Central Government followed by some private companies. State Government are least bothered about spending money on R&D.

Let’s share this information to make everyone aware of Govt’s apathy towards R&D.

Jai Hind!!

Manoj Tripathi 

What is your contribution to society?

Today while coming from office, I got stuck in traffic jam. For good 30 minutes I was there standing there. Frustratingly I increased volume of music inside the car. I blamed government for such pathetic infrastructure and lack of traffic police. Suddenly I observed that few people were driving the car on wrong side. Those were over smart guys. The traffic jam which was about to get over, further got complicated because of those over smart guys. How come people can become so selfish?
I was thinking that though I followed all the rules still I was suffering because of wrong doing of others.
I was trying hard to know the reason. Similarly lot of times we are at receiving end because of somebody else's stupidity.
After lot of soul searching I realized that we as member of society get benefit of somebody else's good doing also like somebody invented electricity, somebody discovered medicines and somebody written outstanding literature. So being member of society, we will gain sometime and sometime we will lose but overall we gain and thus prosper. Therefore in my prosperity there is role of million of unknown faces.
Once traffic jam got over, I reached home and realized that today's traffic jam has taught me something very precious and that is have patience and contribute to society in best possible way.
As a responsible citizen, just a while ago I have send email to Pune traffic police department about traffic issues of Chakan, Pune. Hope traffic police department will pay attention on the my email and my efforts will help thousands of commuters to avoid getting stuck in traffic jam.


Just think about yourself, what's your contribution to society? Is it positive or negative?


Jai Hind!
Manoj Tripathi