12th Five Year Plan (FYP) vs DST

DST given budget of >20,000 crore. With focus on:

1. High Performance Computing

2. National Geospatial Information System
3. Revamping women scientists related schemes with “DISHA”
program.
4. Grants for scientists of Indian origin returning to India for
research careers.

+usual programs for fellowship, women empowerment, SC/ST/elderly,

climate change, safe drinking water etc. that we’ve seen in previous
three parts.

National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy 2012

1. Department of Science & Technology (DST) would be the Nodal
Department
2. to promote data sharing and enable access to Government of
India owned data for national planning and development.
3. make non-strategic data available under RTI
4. Increase the accessibility and easier sharing of non-sensitive
data amongst the registered users for scientific, economic and
social developmental purposes.
5. Union=>gives ca$h to state government/universities. whatever
data is generated because of this ca$h= will fall under this data
sharing policy.

Mapping Related
Survey of India

under DST.

Survey of India gave technical advisory for various

Hydro-Electric Projects. E.g.
DAMS 1. Loktak Downstream Project (Tripura, Manipur
& Mizoram)
2. Kadwan Project (Uttar Pradesh)
3. Khauli and Nichli (HP)
 4. Thana (MH)

 Andhra Pradesh Election Commission Project

 Survey of India collected data of polling booths
ELECTION for various Assembly and Parliamentary
Constituencies in Andra Pradesh.

 National Standardised Control Framework

 Survey of India is in process to develop a GPS
Control network throughout the country.
GPS  This help government agencies engaged in
generating geo-spatial information to carry out
their job more efficiently.

Indian Institute of Surveying & Mapping (IISM),

IISM under Survey of India. Runs courses on M.Sc,
M.Tech etc.
aims to setup National Museum on Surveying and
MUSEUM
Mapping
National Urban Information System (NUIS)
NUIS Scheme.to develop spatial database to help urban
planning and management.
www.surveykshan.gov.inprovides web-based access
to seamless 1:50,000 topographic data of Survey of
Surveykshan India. with help of NSDI.
portal
even gives GIS data assets from Survey of India
(SOI) and Forest Survey of India (FSI).

gave ca$H to Survey of India for preparing coastal

WORLD
zone maps of India . Will help predicting
BANK
hazards/disasters.
National Atlas of India (NATMO)

 a subordinate office under Department of Science &

Technology,
 Sole authority for creating thematic maps and atlases- both in
paper and digital format.
  To educate juntaa about physiographic, hydrologic, climatic,
administrative, political, social, agricultural, industrial, cultural
and economic changes in the country.
 NATMO is also the pioneer of Urban Mapping in India – through
Satellite data + GPS verification.
 Special maps for tourists to show detailed information on
national parks, wild life sanctuaries, cultural heritage etc.

by NATMO.Provides route maps between two points

in the country.
Provides location maps of any site of the country on
Golden map web either by place-names or by geographical co-
Service (GMS) ordinates.
uses data from Indian Remote Sensing Satellites
(IRS) series, cartosat.

National Atlas is the flagship publication of

NATIONAL
NATMO.Depicts the india’s geology, geography,
ATLAS OF
geomorphology, demography, culture,
INDIA
administration, etc. in thematic map form.
DISTRICT PLANNING MAP SERIES (DPMS)gives
ready reckoner district maps to planners,
DPMS researchers, students.
both paper + electronic format.

A web-based atlas using the Open Source Tools

Gender Atlas and Open Standardson gender vulnerabilities
across class, caste and social locations.

Mapping related: misc.

NATURAL RESOURCES DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

NRDMS (NRDMS)promoting Geospatial Governance (g-governance)
+R&D +HRD.

NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)to support

implementation of the National Geo-spatial Information
 System (NGIS) during the 11th Five Year Plan.

Geo-Information Science & Engineering (GISE)by DST.

Project given to IIT Bombay.
GISE
will help in agro-advisory solutions, drinking water supply
etc. using geo-spatial analysis.

International cooperation in S&T

DST looks after:

 Joint workshops, research projects,

BILATERAL seminars, conference, R&D centers.

 Utilization of large scale research facilities

abroad
BODIES  Contributions to international non-
governmental scientific bodies

 personnel exchange programs, training

HRD programs
 fellowships program

 Participation in international mega- science

projects
PR/AWARENESS  Technology summit, industrial fairs, S&T
exhibition

These activates help in following way

1. they promote use Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) as

a tool of diplomacy and foreign relations
2. Increase India’s ranks for scientific excellence worldwide.
3. Leverage foreign alliances and partnerships to accelerate R&D,
reduce our cost and effort.

Let’s check some countries:

(Most of this data from 2012, so not ‘latest’. use it as and where
applicable or just ignore.)
With USA
you’ll find a better list here: http://mrunal.org/2013/06/diplomacy-india-
us-4th-strategic-dialogue-part-2-of-3-science-tech-space-health-care-
cooperation.html

1. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Education
2. Women in Science
3. hurricane weather research and forecasting (HWRF) system;
4. “Triple trouble”: malnutrition, tuberculosis and HIV in India;
5. Virtual Centre on Mathematics and Computer Sciences
6. US Joint Clean Energy R&D Centre
7. Nutrition guidelines for type-2 diabetes mellitus
8. brain disorders, cancer
9. Industry-academia interaction for drug discovery
10. Internet, cloud computing, data applications, etc.

With UK

Next-Gen Networks

 joint collaboration between India and UK

 Phase 2 started from 2012 mainly concentrating on three broad
areas i.e.
 Heterogenous Wireless Access Networks (HELNET)
 Application and Services
 Core Networks Systems

Other projects with UK collaboration

1. polymer fuel cell: improving their performance and and

commercialization
2. JETCELL : Inkjet Printing on Porous Metal Substrate
3. Advancing Biogas Utilization
4. Bridging the rural/urban divide’ for providing technological
solutions to improve the quality of life of rural inhabitants in both
countries
5. solar Energy Research: aimed towards development of solar
photo-voltaic systems.
 6. stem cell research,
7. new energy sources including hydrogen.

With EU

 India-EU signed Joint Declaration on Research and Innovation

Cooperation
 2012: ‘Brussels’ Communiqué’ was adopted to Jointly develop a
Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda(SRIA) for medium to
long term India-EU/Member States Partnership.
 topics: affordable healthcare, sustainable environment and
water, bio-economy, agriculture, energy
 Established a Group of Senior Officials (GSO): a three tier
structure for streamlining governance of Indo-European S&T
cooperation
 Dye Sensitized Solar Celltechnology for efficient Solar cells

with various bodies

India may support UNESCO declaring 2014 as

International Year of Crystallography. It would allow
UNESCO
India to showcase its competencies by hosting regional
& international events.

Facility for Anti Proton Research (FAIR).

FAIR
@GermanyIndia gave money and got 3% partnership.

India funding projects for

1. Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) at Mauna Kea in

telescopes Hawaii,
2. Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
3. Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave
Observatory (LIGO) etc.

we’ve given man-material support 4following projects

@CERN Geneva
CERN
1. Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
2. CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid)
 3. ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment)

We’re also trying to get ‘Associate Membership’ of

CERN. This will help our desi scientific community in
future.

In 2012, India completed regional and multilateral S&T

cooperation related agreements with following:

overall  EU,ASEAN, IBSA, BRICS, BIMSTEC, SAARC,

ACD
 NAM, UNESCO,UNCSTD, OECD, IOR- ARC

With other countries

Brazil Earth science

Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced

France
Research completed 25 years in 2012.

Germany, Finland Green chemistry

Israel Solar Energy, robotics

Japan space, manufacturing, biomedical science

Mexico, Taiwan Seismology

Netherlands Smart Materials and Smart Grid (energy)

Norway Glaciology Program

smart textiles, microelectronics, mechanical

Portugal
engineering

Delhi unit of Indo-Russian S&T Centre (IRSTC)

Russia
was inaugurated in 2012.
S.Africa HIV/AIDS and TB.

S.Korea Energy and Environment.

Slovenia metallurgy

Spain Pharma, Agri, Food processing,

Sweden embedded systems

Switzerland,
Medical health, Infectious diseases.
Tunisia, Ukrain

Awareness/PR campaigns
VIGYAN PRASAR

 Vigyan Prasar is a National Institute for science communication

+ popularization of science
 via magazines, radio-television programs.
 for example during National Mathematical Year 2012 they ran
Television serials, Radio serials, handbook, special outreach
through EduSAT to promote maths.

bi-lingual science magazine from Vigyan prasar.you can read

Dream
free PDF from their official
2047
site: http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/dream/index1.asp

let’s check some more awareness campaigns/Public relation (PR)

exercises:

BUILDING EDUCATORS FOR SCIENCE

TEACHING.program launched in 2012
BEST To upgrade skills of science teachers and
make science education more enjoyable,
purposeful & meaningful.
  children of 10 to 17 years from all over
the country
Children’s science  held annually in December
congress  theme 2013: Energy: Explore, Harness
& Conserve

 National Day is celebrated every year on

February, 28 to commemorate the
discovery of the Raman Effect.
NATIONAL  Theme 2012: Clean Energy Options and
SCIENCE DAY Nuclear Safety”.
 theme 2013: Genetically Modified Crops
and Food Security.

2012 was declared as the National Year of

NATIONAL YEAR
Mathematicsfor Ramanujan Chandrashekhar’s
OF MATHEMATICS
125th Birthday.
Awareness campaigns to explain magical tricks
SCIENCE BEHIND
used by (Bogus) Godmen, baba-log to fool idiot
MIRACLES
devotes.
 2012: Conference of the Parties (CoP-11)
to Convention on Biological Diversity held
@HYD.
 with respect to that, Science Express-
Biodiversity Special (SEBS) was
SCIENCE launched on World Environment Day (5
EXPRESS June 2012) from Delhi Safdarjung.
 Of the 16 coaches of Science Express-
Biodiversity Special, 8 are solely
dedicated to showcasing the myriad
biodiversity spread across the bio-
geographical zones,

in Northeastern Region and Bundelkhand

VIGYAN JATHA Region mobilizing science awareness
campaigns.
to give chance of personal contact between the
Vijoshi Camp students and the leaders of Science. 2012
camp held in Banglore.
 Awards
Boring, you may ignore if running out of time for mains 2013.
National Awards on Technology

 given to industries for developing indigenous technology

 By DST, on Technology Day = 11th May
 ca$h comes from DST=>Technology Development Board
(TDB)=>award winner.

2013 winners

Indian Veterinary successful commercial production

Research Institute of Bluetongue pentavalent vaccine
(IVRI) + a private co. and Johne’s disease vaccine for the first time
from Karnataka in India

private co. from

a digital Strain Measurement System.
Banglore

Coordinate Measuring Machine in 3D device

private co. from Pune for Measuring the Physical Geometrical
Characteristics of an Object.

2012: winners

Integrated GIS and Image Processing Softwareplayers:

IGis Scnpoint Geomatic (company in A’bad) with help of ISRO,
A’bad.

Zen Zen Driving Training simulator (Zen DTS) for Overseas

DTS market

Energy Saving MAG Coupled Induction lights with Wire-free

Lighting ManagementAuto-dimming facilities based on real
DIAON time clock
product saves energy compared to conventional lighting
 system.

Tech. Business incubator awards 2013

by DST
Blood Chemistry Analyser & Compact Portable Mobile Lab.

 by Amit Bhanagar/IIT with funding from DST.

 This Analyser supports the analysis of 23 parameters including
Haemoglobin count, Blood Glucose, Urea, Uric Acid, Creatinine,
Bilirubin, Cholesterol, etc
 testing cost: Rs. 120 per person.
 can test 4000 samples per day
 Costs ~80000 rupees.

Modular Tablet PC

 by two young IITians- Sh. Rohan Pandey and Sh. Rohit Rathi.
 Their Tablet PC is differentiated from other similar product in the
market as it integrates ZigBee along with WiFi, Bluetooth and
3G.
 designed like a book: and it has 2 displays, one in front like a
Magazine and another on the spine to show secondary
information.
 cost Rs.~12000

some  Handheld integrated battery operated

Banglore microPCR(Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
company Device with real-time detection.

Biotech Awards 2013

Given by Department of Biotech

1. some WB univ. using biomaterials in treatment of

orthopaedic surgical challenges.
Monoclonal antibody based
2. some Karnataka Univ. Diagnostics Kits for white spot virus
of shrimp.
3. National Bureau of Animal parentage verification kits of
Genetic Resources, Buffalo, cattle, sheep, goat, camel,
Karnal Yak and Mithun.