there is an excellent news that with increase in agricultural growth, enrolment in agricultural colleges have also increased. I am not sure about the data from India, will check up in a few days and get back. But the need for reform in agricultural education is so vital that it can not be ignored any…
Indian Innovators Need Funds Brilliant inventors in India are going unrewarded monetarily for their breakthroughs breakthroughs By Anil Gupta Related Items Visit HarvardBusiness.org Posted on Conversation Starter: May 11, 2009 2:31 PM Dada Khobragade is a farmer living in a small hut without toilets in India. That itself is not unusual. But Dada Khobragade is…
dear Yogiraj I think you have answered the question yourself, just as you felt intrigued and take the trouble of writing, i think many more like you will feel persuaded in investing in young techminds of our country. I of course look forward to your suggestions to make it happen better, faster and smoother. i am also requesting several friends…
This is what MHRD, government of India, headed by Sibal says ( http://www.education.nic.in/cd50years/r/2R/7Q/2R7Q0101.htm downloaded on June 28, 2009) Nearly half the children who entered Class I drop out before reaching Class V, and two-thirds of the children dropout before reaching Class VIII. Regional disparities also abound in rates of the dropouts. Is it by design that the…
I am surprised that 121` countries in the recent meeting of International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture ( ITPGRFA) agreed for such a small amount and that too voluntraily. given the fact that most developing cuntyries inluding India have practically no programes for in situ conservation of agro-biodiversity , this appears to be…
Most developing countries are puting their money where their mouth is, in terms of sustainable technologies. See report below from malysia ministry of S and T and innovations. I had spent afew days with MOSTI a few years ago to help them develop a program to scout innovations from common people and young students. I am happy…
Draft for comments: Key Draft recommendations for building a globalizing and resurgent India through innovative transformation (GRIT), a course taught by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam and Anil K Gupta at IIMA. Several groups recommended setting up pura corporation at district level with district collector as joint CEO with a professional chief executive to run it…
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2∫_new=31507 MEXICO CITY.- Returned to Mexico in 1990 by the Vatican, the De la Cruz-Badiano Codex, considered the first medical book of the new World, was digitalized and edited in a compact disc by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), to be presented in June 17th 2009, with the comments of Miguel Leon Portilla, who was…
The labourer’s manifesto expressindia.com on 18 April, 2009 Most political parties woo labourers as voters but seldom think of them as a target for technological development and empowerment. Why should the interests of those who vote more than any other social segment be addressed so indifferently? Years of neglect have helped give rise to a…
Senior leaders of Marxist party have gone on record to say that if, pl note, if, tribal people want to talk, we will, but no talks with maoist. I have no doubt the central forces will ultimately triumph over tribal resistence . but what will be won in this case? a piece of land, yes…