Make India "land of opportunities

The Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, Anil Kakodkar, on Friday called for efforts to make India a land of opportunities rather than a land of ideas alone, by bringing together knowledge and application.A large number of problems were waiting solutions, Dr. Kakodkar said. It was odd that at times, despite the availability of facilities, the country had to depend on outsiders to find solutions to such problems. "We must make our activities and programmes more comprehensive and robust so that we are not exposed to such dangers." He stressed the need for peripheral activities around research programmes on pure mathematics so that mathematics could be used for various applications, besides meeting the interests of society. This would also result in easier flow of funds from the industries that were not so focussed on long-term programmes.