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High-Tech INDIA: Still a DREAM
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India as an emerging economy has its presence in all areas and almost throughout the globe. India did a greatest job in terms of technology after the independence. We are among the leaders in outsourcing as far as Information Technology is concerned. India is an emerging economy and attracting the investment in almost all the sectors which includes Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing and Banking to name a few. India is the hot place now for companies to look at for new software development. The trend actually started more than fifteen years ago. This is an early look at the growth of high-tech in India, shot on location in Bangalore, New Delhi, and Mumbai. After the independence of 62 years, India is not realizing its potential in Science in general and in Research in particular. We are lacking behind many countries like China, Japan, South Korea and USA. If we go in to the deep and see the history of Science and Technology, we was somewhere in top-10 but now situation is almost opposite. We are still depending on some foreign countries for some parts or components and anything for that matter. The recent failure of the GSAT-5P communication satellite launch on December 25, 2010 is because of some error in cryogenic stage component import from Russia. To become a dominant leader in science and technology, we need to focus on our core competence areas, we need to realize the potential and look forward to compete with global players. We can not depend for some minor or major component or even any component for that matter on some foreign countries. It shows our dependency on these countries and hence we are still in a condition that we can not do anything alone without someone’s support. This is a solid evidence of our inabilities in manufacturing in general and science and research in particular.
Why India can’t think beyond:
Now-a-days, Institutions is busy in organizing some conferences, seminars, and Government or Government officials are busy in foreign country visits. They are competing with global players. It’s good to see a dream but it’s very bad not to think beyond dream. For becoming a number one in any area, we need to focus on implementation stage. And this is where we are not doing anything. We as a country are one of the oldest civilizations with strong arithmetic ability. We have some extreme brilliant examples in front of us like Dr Vikram Sarabhai (The father of Indian Space Programme) and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (Missile Man). India is loosing its identity somewhere in this era of LPG (Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization). Becoming a global player does not mean that we have more opportunities to buy products or import anything which we want. China, For instance, is growing by leaps and bounds in all sectors and may dismiss it as just a bubble that may not sustain in the long run given their political system, the fact remains that china is recording phenomenal growth not just in terms of economy but also in terms of its Research and Development (R&D) capabilities. If we look in to the top three investors in R&D, China stood at third place right after USA and Japan. At the same time we are not even in top-10. India is at 13th place with investment of 13.2% of GDP.  The gap between Government contribution and Industry contribution is very huge in India as compare to other countries. They are doing hard work on account of R&D silently. China is already displaced USA and emerged as the world’s leading high technology exporter. The evidence of this lies in the fact that China has in October this year overtaken the USA as home of the world’s fastest supercomputer.
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Can India catch up???
Named Tianhe-A, This supercomputer is capable of sustained computing of 2507 petaflops - equivalent to 2507 trillion calculations each second. The speed of this supercomputer is believed to be 1.4 times faster than the former number one supercomputer Cray XT5 Jaguar in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Though China has only 24 of the world’s top 500 supercomputers with the USA having more than half of these, China in recent years has pumped billions of dollars into developing its computational abilities. Though Tianhe-A was built from thousands of chips made by US Firms – Intel and Nvidia – Chinese researchers developed the networking technology that allows information to be exchanged between servers at extraordinary speeds. Tianhe-A is 29 millions times more powerful than the first supercomputer developed in 1976. The rapid strides made by China become strikingly evident when one recalls the fact that China was not even in the picture of supercomputing when India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing developed Param, The country’s first supercomputer in 1991.  While India today has quite a few supercomputers, China with its Tianhe-A is now several miles ahead of other countries including the USA. Besides high technology achievement, China also has high speed trains running at 350 kmph. China now boasts of the world’s fastest trains. If the momentum on the R&D is sustained, China is bound to leave all other nations well behind making it the world’s superpower in technology. Now the question is why we are not able to catch up extremes in technology, despite of world-class scientists?
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Need of the Hour:
Though India has all types of institutes especially Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), the fact remains that our education system does not encourage research. We have numerous numbers of bogus Ph Ds almost in all areas, we have world class academicians and we have top class facilities but High-Tech India is still a dream for Indians. Because the fact is Ph Ds are not up to the level and academicians are busy in taking guest lectures in foreign universities. If we look at the world rankings of universities and institutes, the reputed Shanghai Index does not have even one university or institute in its list of top-300 universities. On the other hand, China has 2 of its universities in the top-40. If we really want to catch up with the world’s leading technologically advanced countries, our education system should be able to generate new ideas and innovations. And it is possible only when our higher educational system lays more emphasis on research that encourages new ideas and innovations. Apart from this, our higher education system needs to embrace autonomy, meritocracy and enhanced interaction between our universities and the world’s leading research universities. Though our higher education system facilitates exchange of faculty and student but it’s not sufficient to keep abreast of the emerging developments in various sectors. Other important this is Industry should come forward and encourage R&D in a big way as it is being done in other technologically advanced countries like South Korea and Japan where industry finances 75 percent of the R&D and China and USA where industry finances 70 percent and 65 percent of the R&D respectively. In India, Industry contribution toward research is merely 20 percent in R&D. How we can create technology? We should change if we are to be a dominant leader in high technologies. Policy makers and Government along with Industries should come forwards to develop some new technologies by encourages R&D as it is need of the hour otherwise dream is remain dream only; it can never become a reality.  Government need to work hard by putting some extra efforts with some strategic single-minded focused objective otherwise be ready to follow other countries like a bagger. After all, leader is a leader.
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