Science funding in India to remain flat
MAR 03, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028682
Nature : India’s 2015–16 budget, announced last Friday, disappointed many of the country’s scientists because it did not include an overall boost in science funding. Although India’s principal science funding agency, the Ministry of Science and Technology, received an 8% budget increase, other agencies had their budgets cut, among them the Ministry for Earth Sciences, whose allocation fell by 4.6%. Despite the flat science budget, India will expand its Indian Institutes of Technology system. Two new IIT centers now have funding.
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