What Prez said!

Our Prez.Pranab Mukherjee has rightly said our universities deserve no credit for Nobel laureates like Dr.Hargobind Khorana, Amartya Sen and others.They did their research work in foreign universities and became Nobel awardees.They were Indian by birth only.However, C.V. Raman was the only Indian scientist who won Nobel Prize in Science and he did his entire research project in India at Indian Institute of Cultivation of Science ,Calcutta, that too in much adverse ambiance. Another man who was Indian born British doctor became Nobel Laureate in Medicine by pursuing his research project in india.He was Ronald Ross.He worked on Maleria at Predsidency General Hospital , Calcutta, now called SSKM Hospital . Prez has rightly contended that it's regrettable none of the Indian universities has achieved the distinction of being placed even at the 200th position in the list of 400 world ranking universities published this month.However, it's our consolation that five Indian universities have figured in positions 200-400.Punjab university has sprang a surprise by occupying 225-250 position while IITs-Kgp,IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Delhi and IIT-Roorkee are placed in 350-400 positions.Incidentally, earlier IIT-Kgp was in225-250 position.It's intersting our top ranking national universities like D.U,JNU,BHU, C.U,J.U,IISc,BESU etc are no where in the scale. It may be noted in China and Japan 7 and 5 universities respectively have found place among 200 top global universities. Among other criteria standard of a university is judged by its quality of research activities.In most of our universities research work suffer for lack of infrastructural facilities.That apart, bureaucratic bungling, political interference and teachers' too much involvement in politics also hamper research activities in a big way.More over, research supervisors spend more time in departmental politics than in academic pursuit.