R&D in Agriculture,Health and Infrastructure.

Dr DV Singh of Roorkee University, while outlining the role of public-private partnership in Govt policy said that the issue never figured out in Govt's Science and Technology statement as late as 1981. It was only in the policy statement of 2003 that the govt stressed the need of R&D in Agriculture, Health and Infrastructure. He said that India has more than 300 R&D institutions where 1000 of compounds are synthesised annually. India has also become a vaccine hub for major pharmaceutical companies. "Given these facts, India should be recognised as a high-skilled-manpower country rather than backstage of R&D," he said.