Team Details: 1. Shivam Aggarwal shivamaggarwal0711@gmail.com 09411296518 2. Shailendra Singh thakurssp7@gmail.com 08765170907 3. Shivani Chaturvedi shivanichaturvedi50@gmail.com 07786061098 4. Vijay Anand v_anand@hotmail.com 09648095995 5. Vinit Singh dashingvinit07@gmail.com 09457654462

Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Raebareli (U.P.) - 229001

The Problem : • Global investments in science, technology and innovation

are estimated at $1.2 trillion as of 2009. India’s R&D investment is less than 2.5% of this and is currently under 1% of the GDP. Increasing gross expenditure in R&D to 2%

of the GDP has been a national goal for some time.¹ • Delhi metro project, totally dependent on Japan

technology. Its major contractors belong to countries like

Korea, Japan, Sweden, Germany, France etc.² • Indian defense sector, well known for its excellence,

imports its major part of technology – armors, missiles, jet planes and submarines from Russia.

• India spends a major part of dollar stock for buying the technology from other countries.

• Outflow of Indian mindsparks, that are being utilized for the development of other countries.

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Unsung Causes:

• “One-size-fits-all” strategies are being implemented in all the sectors.

• We don’t have enough seats for higher education in good, reputed colleges that, at best , may accommodate 10 per cent of the applicant pool of the students.

• Number of bills regarding upliftment of this sector are pending in Parliament, such as The Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008 .4

• Low social status of people engaged in such sectors.

• “Work to earn” attitude in youth of India.

• Liberalization of the norms in education sector , thus enabling any person with riches to start an institution as a business, thus degrading the quality education.

Future vistas:

• It’ll produce cost effective technology which would help us in the upcoming future.

• It can redefine everything - from products, processes and services to individuals, organizations, the public and private sector and institutions.

• Conventional technology wastes energy and is less efficient.

• Scientific research utilizes money to generate knowledge and, by providing solutions, innovation converts knowledge into wealth and/or value.

• Identification of 100 Institutions across the country. The basis for the selection of a particular institution will be the available resources within the institution and the potential to grow up and emerge as a world class institution.

• Dividing the identified institutes in 5 zones, on the basis of region, each consisting of 20 institutes.

Upgrading the subsisting higher educational institutions to provide the base for promoting research and innovation in India:

• Forming 5 zonal committees, each for the respected zone, for monitoring the infrastructure and academicians within the institution, and submitting a report regarding it within 4 months’ duration.

• Provide a model of the ideal institute and make a team for each of the 100 institutes, comprising of 1 supervisor and 5 engineers, who would work to get the institute to the ideal model.

• Make a team of experts who would train the existing faculties for complying the revised criteria for providing International standard education to their students (criteria may imply norms such as minimum 3 years experience either in research or corporate).

• Decreasing the teacher-student ratio from 1:15 to 1:10, and hence for this, we have to recruit faculty to bridge the gap, by attracting the Indians working abroad and researchers working for MNCs.

MHRD

(Ministry of Human Resource &

Development)

5 zonal committees

Inspecting Infrastructure

Inspecting Academicians

Faculty Training Panel

Effectuation of plan: • Faculty training panel will incorporate the personnel from

research sectors, corporate world, management field and professors from world’s reputed universities.

• The zonal committees comprise of members from various scopes, such as retired judicial, fellows from research institutions, retired army chiefs, heads of NGOs and head of institutions.

Intended Expenditure (INR 3,500 crore): • Allocate INR 500 crore for the development of infrastructure

(INR 5 crore per institute). • INR 3000 crore for faculty payment . A typical university has around 7000 students. At present teacher-student ratio is 1:15 (about 470 faculty). To make it 1:10 we require 230 more faculty(700-470=230). An attractive pay for the newly appointed faculty is INR 12 lakh p.a. So approximately we require 30 crore for one institute’s faculties.

Monetary Sources :

• Collaborating with corporate sector on symbiotic terms. They would invest on students for

performing research in their respected fields and then they are able to use that technology.

• Redistribution of monetary funds so as to cover the requirements of this sector.

• INR 65,867 crore has been allocated to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, an increase of 17 percent over the RE of the current year.6

• Inviting underdeveloped and other developing nations to send their students for higher studies in India on contract basis that they would provide us with the monetary requirements and in response, would get their students educated by utilizing the resources available in India.

Upshots of the plan:

•Number of researches completed by the students per year.

•Researches being implemented in the industries.

•Number of patents filed yearly.

Criteria for measurement of impact

of proposed solution

•Utilization of all the available resources in a sustainable manner.

•Enriching the youth, and in turn, the country.

Sustainability of the solution

•The zonal committees appointed before should inspect the institutions in its zone at regular intervals (say 6 months).

•Conducting regular surveys regarding facilities and resources available to students.

Monitoring Mechanism

Challenges: Mitigation of the challenges:

• Promoting awareness among people towards the area of research.

• Fixed mind-set of people (parents as well as students) that only Doctors and Engineers are the only successful personalities

Social

• Increasing the fund allocated to this sector. India’s R&D expenditure is about

0.9% of GDP.5

• Due to falling Indian economy, it would be tough to attract foreign investors.

Economic

• Political pressures on the executing committees regarding their selfish motives.

• Delay in timely execution of the proposed plans.

Political

• To generate awareness, make a reputed personality as the ambassador for this program.

• Invoking the working abroad Indians’ morality to work for the nation enclosure(1).

• Organizing seminars and counseling sessions for the students as well as parents.

• Finance Ministry has to take proper steps to strengthen the Indian economy.

• MHRD has to work without being influenced by the political entities.

References: 1. Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2013, Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology,

New Delhi

2. http://www.delhimetrorail.com/

3. STRATEGY PAPER, MARCH 2011, Office of Adviser to the Prime Minister, Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations

4. http://www.prsindia.org/billtrack/the-protection-and-utilisation-of-public-funded-intellectual-property-bill-2008-83/

5. http://economicsdoodle.blogspot.in/2012/01/indias-r-expenditure-as-percentage-of.html

6. http://indiabudget.nic.in

7. Possible Synergies between CII and National Innovation Council (NInC), Confederation of Indian Industry.

8. Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, 2013, Government of India, Ministry of Science & Technology, New Delhi.

9. The Protection and Utilization of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008, http://www.prsindia.org/

10. The Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research Bill, 2008, http://www.prsindia.org/

11. Research and Innovation Policy Guidelines for 2011–2015, The Research and Innovation Council of Finland

12. Promoting EU-India Research & Innovation Collaboration, Awareness Raising and Information Campaign in India, 10-28 September 2012

13. PROMOTING INNOVATIONS IN INDIVIDUALS, START-UPs and MSMEs (PRISM), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.

14. THE PATENTS ACT, 1970, http://www.ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/patAct1970-3-99.html

15. TOWARDS A MORE INCLUSIVE AND INNOVATIVE INDIA, STRATEGY PAPER MARCH 2011, Office of Adviser to the Prime Minister, Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations

Enclosures: A letter to convince the Indians working abroad and in private sector, invoking in them, their moral responsibility to work for their nation.

Dear Indian,

Rarely has a nation of multi-crore population would be so desolate; rarely has such a proud country been brought down to such an abysmal state that it may need alms. It is the same nation, the same India, which fought with valor and pride to rise above slavery and bondage. Yet ironically today, it needs the help of its sons and daughters serving abroad in the interest of other nations and lands.

This letter is, but, only a ripple on the surface, a glimpse of demons plaguing our country. In our 66th year of independence, the stark truth is that our country is in dire need for help. This is not a listening of problems, but bringing them to the forefront of our combine analysis and solutions. Poverty, the root from which every other malaise springs forth is televised as a false broadcast of hope and a developing nation when the actuality is that a million people are homeless, countless children forced on the streets to beg, dwell in slums, subjected to malnutrition and short lived miserable lives. Severe lack of indigenous practices and over-dependence on foreign investment has not only set us back on the development scale but also made a joke of the self-sufficient and self-reliant boasts of our leaders.

Former suicides and loss of livelihoods of so many rural families who find themselves at a loss of any help is yet another bane from which we suffer. Tagore has envisioned a nation “where the head is held high and the mind is without fear”. But contrary to that vision, women today walk the streets with bowed heads and terror of being attacked at any moment. Fear prowls everywhere and crimes against women are shamelessly and rampantly committed. Poverty may be the biggest deconstruction but we but we believe that inequality in education and illiteracy are the real harbingers of doom on our nation. If opportunities for education are limited only to a privileged, few then that’s not the kind of diversity or inequality we are proud of. If 4 out of every 5 children become street laborers, then that’s not the kind of nation builder’s we have in mind. The architecture and ideals that guided our country have been twisted and warped to such a degree that they no longer serve the people, but only those in power. It is not as if there aren’t people amongst us who are fighting for change and betterment but the best ideologies often find themselves at logger heads with the corrupt administrations.

Our motherland is crippled and in her twilight years, she needs your help. We need you to help same and rebuild the nation that helped to groom and shape your own lives. Many of you have brought pride to this nation but more than that it needs you and your abilities at the moment. The vast resources at your disposal, be it either financial acumen capital. They are the tools that are needed to strip away the weakened foundation and reconstruct. We need you to infuse a lease of life into the frail bones of our burdened nation. It is neither duty nor service, but a sense of giving back to the country that gave us and you everything.

We don’t need the headlines stating that “so many thousand crores proposed for so and so development project”. Instead we want the news to read “foreign return venture capitalist(s) opened primary schools, women rehabilitation centers, old age homes, or rural electrification projects”. So, we aren’t asking you to change the system, the system is beyond our help. We need your help to transform the people because these are the problems of the people and the people in essence are the nation.

We urge you to heed this call for help and return to help your nation, return to give back what it has lost and together create a new India.