Coimbatore, February 02: Efforts are being made to encourage Indian-origin scientists working abroad to return and work in the country to support India’s collaborative research and development programmes, Defence Minister A K Antony said today.
“By this, we can convert the brain drain of the past into a brain gain for the future,” he said after dedicating the DRDO-BU Centre of Life Sciences here to the nation.
The DRDO, particularly its Life sciences cluster of laboratories, has recently taken up aggressive efforts to promote recruitment of NRI scientists, after the period of 2010-20 was declared as the “decade of innovations” to sustain scientific temper and promote innovations, Antony said.
The challenge today lies in synergising efforts and contributions of DRDO, academia and industry in working out an acceptable, realisable model, which could be used for building up an indigenous capability in defence technologies, he said.
–Agencies