National PhD Initiative

There is an urgent need to launch a 'National PhD Initiative' in a mission mode to increase the engineering and science PhDs output.The study carried out by IIT-Mumbai professors Rangan Banerjee and Vinayak P Muley of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering.India's doctorate degrees are less than one per cent of graduate engineering degrees while this percentage is much higher for most of the other countries studied 9 per cent USA, 10 per cent UK, 8 per cent Germany and 3 per cent Korea.