At the outset the report high lights the new policy initiatives of the current government in science administration, and indicates the significance of these changes and their impact on national development goals. The account is a comprehensive summery and not a critical analysis of scientific efforts underway in India. A more discriminating student of Indian science will, no doubt, seek to study the situation from source documents such as sectoral reports, agency briefs and circulars. Relevant information will also be found in the more elaborate documents coming out of the Department of Science and Technology and the Planning Commission, the various analytical abstracts from census tracts, and scholarly papers and annual reports from individual agencies, departments and commissions.
The data and information presented in this report are reliable, consistent and fairly current. The reader may find some irreconcilability among the various sets of data on the same subject coming from ...
