Now the Government wants the Private Sector to do its work

Now the Government wants the Private Sector to do its work

Jammu, Feb 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said that the country should increase its annual expenditure on science and technology.

"We must increase our annual expenditure on science and technology to at least 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP)," Manmohan Singh in his inaugural address at the 101st Indian Science Congress here.

"To do science, someone must pay for it," he added.

The prime minister also said that this should be a combined initiative of government and the industry.

"In countries such as South Korea, where a high percentage of GDP goes to science, the contribution of industry is significant," Manmohan Singh said.

He appealed to the corporate sector to join hands with the government in "realising the goals set for the nation".

"I am happy that our department of biotechnology has activated private public partnerships in research and development," he said.

Mr. Singh's exhortation reminds me of Rajiv Gandhi.

When he was the Prime Minister with a good majority, he too used to utter the same words as Mr. Singh.

"We must do this" or " we should do that."

If the Prime Minister of a country has to say these words, when he is the PM, God save the country.

The government is taking away 60 % from the business through the various taxes.

It is making the corporate do its work by asking them to allocate a certain percentage of its profit for CSR.

Now it is asking them to do research when they themselves have messed up everything by their reservation policy.

Who will do research when our best brains go abroad because of this policy as they find there is no scope for their development in India. Only the mediocre who cannot move out remain in India.

Now the government wants it make it even worse by asking the private sector to implement its reservation policy so that even the private sector is thrown down the drain.

All the money collected by the government by it various taxes are siphoned of by the politicians and bureaucrats and then it wants the private sector to do its work.