Only 15.8 per cent of the total publications produced by Indian researchers feature in the top 10 journals globally, a government report has revealed. It has emphasized on the dire need to focus on the quality of research in the country.
Compared globally, India trails the UK, which has 37.3 per cent research work published in top 10 journals, the US (36.2 per cent), Germany (33.4 per cent) and China (27.6 per cent).
India ranks fifth in global research publication.
According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) 2017 report
1. China made as many as 13,81,584 patent applications.
2. US made 6,06,956 patent applications. while,
3. India made a mere 46,582 applications, of which approximately 68 per cent were by non-resident Indians, and only 26 per cent (12,387) of them were accepted as patents.
Some of the recommendations that Government should take to ensure we become a global hub in terms of research and innovations:
1. It is important that the regulatory fee models of the HEI’s be liberalized (with suitable checks and balances) to empower them to recruit the best faculty and set up the modern infrastructure to induce improvement in their standards.
2. Good higher education does require considerable financial inputs, and this has become a bottleneck in many private or State institutions.
3. Thus, the goal of accreditation for all may remain a shallow dream and wishful thinking, if this aspect of raising standards is ignored.
The State Government and Privately funded institutions require special attention, and the general impression is that many of them are in a pathetic state of funding with poor infrastructure, extremely poor record of faculty recruitment over the last many years or even decades, and at times suffering from blatant interference of the state in some form or the other, in the running of their day-today-affairs.
A way needs to be found to handle this state of affairs, without which the HEI system will be very difficult to reform.
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