GOOD AND BAD

Among many fields of activity India's strength in basic research is recognized internationally. Successes in agriculture, health care, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, nuclear energy, astronomy and astrophysics, space technology and applications, defense research, biotechnology, electronics, information technology and oceanography are widely acknowledged.                                                     

BUT       

Among the Asian countries, India accounts for about 10% of the total expenditure on Research and Development (R&D).In the past five years the numbers of scientific publications in the country have grown by 45%. But compared to other developed countries, India is still way behind. India has only 140 researchers per 1,000,000 population while the figure is 4,651 in the US.