Government takes measures to set up science cities, science centres

NEW DELHI: With an aim to encourage science and technology incubators, the government will soon launch a hub and spoke model to set up science cities and science centres across the country, Union Minister Y S Chowdary said today.

He said the Ministry of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences was working on a system called 'five year rolling plan' to measure the plans and their implementation for both politicians and bureaucrats.

The country can be divided into five zones so that each zone can have a science city and a number of science centres which can be easily accessed by rural population and youngsters, Chowdary said while inaugurating an ASSOCHAM Summit on 'India: Entrepreneurial, Creative & Innovative'.

"In addition to that if we create a proper ecosystem like bird migration, we can definitely attract many scientists from foreign countries because of environmental conditions," he added.

He said that for the past 18 months planning is being done but there is not any proper tool to measure whether the goals have been achieved or not.

"So, if we can introduce a rolling plan for five years, the successor can always refer what has happened, what was being planned, to what extent one has achieved and what are the things to be achieved," he said.