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`Step up interaction between academicians, industry'

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry March. 4. The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India,

R. Chidambaram has stressed that every effort should be made in the science and technology field for synergy among concerned parties and there must be coherence among all efforts.

Delivering a talk under the third Vijaya Bank Endowment Lecture at the Rajiv Gandhi College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences here today, Dr. Chidambaram said that there must be increased interaction between academicians and industry .

Rural development related technology was essential, he said. `we should create jobs in rural environment. Potential leaders in the rural areas would not then feel the compulsion to go to urban areas'. Hence situation should be created in every field to relate it to rural development.

For every rural industry there would be modern industrial counterpart and there should be synergy between them. Most of the times technology improvement was determined by fashion rather than utility, Dr. Chidambaram said.

Nuclear energy was the most inevitable and increasingly significant and important option for India.

He said that there should be promotion of female literacy as it was a measure of development and justice and this happened to be among the chief parameters of development, he said.

The other factors included the per capita power consumption which would focus the scale of country's development.

The Chief Secretary, R. Padmanabhan who is also chairman of Veterinary College council recalled the Memorandum of Understanding the Union Territory Administration had signed with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre for providing nuclear medicine and establishment of sophisticated facility in the hospital here.

As a result of this arrangement with BARC, a Rs.-30 lakh gamma camera had been set up in the Government hospital premises in Gorimedu.

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