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The stress laid by Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam on giving a major thrust to technology development, in the course of his address to students of the students
of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, provides an occasion for taking a fresh look at issues on which views may still remain as they were when
they were formulated decades ago. Before doing so, it should be mentioned that the policy enunciated by the Government in 1993 has specified a number
of technologies including those for alternative fuels, renewable and no-conventional sources and energy conservation. This long and forward-looking list
would absorb the attention of large teams of scientists for a long time. The placing of the emphasis on self-reliance in technology in the earlier years
of independence had been unavoidable for quite a few reasons. None of the developed countries, principally the United States, was willing to agree to
a comprehensive transfer of technology to India which had, therefore, to depend on its own capabilities to prise it open from whatever was available as
intermediate or finished products. India getting down to this task of cracking case-hardened technology did enrich knowledge and helped utilize it for
subsequent indigensation though it was often very much like re-inventing the wheel. The Western reluctance to part with technology to India during the
years of the Cold War let it with no choice but to turn to the erstwhile Soviet Union for technology over a wide range. This did give a fillip to the
of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, provides an occasion for taking a fresh look at issues on which views may still remain as they were when
they were formulated decades ago. Before doing so, it should be mentioned that the policy enunciated by the Government in 1993 has specified a number
of technologies including those for alternative fuels, renewable and no-conventional sources and energy conservation. This long and forward-looking list
would absorb the attention of large teams of scientists for a long time. The placing of the emphasis on self-reliance in technology in the earlier years
of independence had been unavoidable for quite a few reasons. None of the developed countries, principally the United States, was willing to agree to
a comprehensive transfer of technology to India which had, therefore, to depend on its own capabilities to prise it open from whatever was available as
intermediate or finished products. India getting down to this task of cracking case-hardened technology did enrich knowledge and helped utilize it for
subsequent indigensation though it was often very much like re-inventing the wheel. The Western reluctance to part with technology to India during the
years of the Cold War let it with no choice but to turn to the erstwhile Soviet Union for technology over a wide range. This did give a fillip to the
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