Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the science community should focus on innovations for rural poor and farmers, but also exercise discretion in choosing causes to work for.
“New India needs technology as well as a logical temperament so that our effort for social and economic development of the individual is in the right direction,” Modi said in a speech after inaugurating 107th Indian Science Congress at the University of Agriculture in Bengaluru.
Yesterday, Modi inaugurated 5 new laboratories of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), which will employ only scientists under 35 years, and work on