New Delhi - India has decided to form a national level body to monitor, fund and promote scientific research in the Country. The proposal was made by the science advisory council to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a meeting on Friday.

"The Prime Minister has accepted the proposal, the finer details of which would be drafted later," said C.N.R. Rao, Chairman of the advisory committee.

"The idea of such a body is not 'competition' but to establish a body that would only focus on promotion of research activities in the Country," Rao said.

"Its involvement in research will be confined only to facilitation through funding, monitoring and administration," he added.

Dr Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist from India, has appreciated the initiative of forming a Scientific Advisory Board on national level and said that it would boost the genuine scientists to complete their research work. It was lacking in India.  Only SAOUL is functioning but without any fund from the Govt., which shows how Govt. was sleeping over the scientific area.

According to members of the committee, the national level body would have functional autonomy and "would be a step towards removing bureaucratic hurdles to research".

The fund would be on the lines of the National Science Foundation of the US, which is an independent federal agency created by the US Congress in 1950 to promote science in that country.

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