genome science & more. professor, school of biotechnology and special centre for systems medicine, jawaharlal nehru university, new delhi, india.
Sep 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
reviving indian science 101
govt must: 1. scrap all the scientific #awards immediately, across all subjects. 2. open #director positions of all scientific inst to non-scientists. 3. double the #salary of scientists but make all their jobs contractual. @DrJitendraSingh@PMOIndia1. awards have effectively destroyed indian science. if we want to encourage science, give special grants to the chosen scientists with no riders on how and where he/she/they can spend. awards have made people work for awards and not to discover/find anything new.
Jun 16, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
1/n @DBTIndia our project fellows not paid for 9mo. we have sent series of uc/soe but every time due to delay, the next series of papers wanted as time has lapsed or something silly. those with big projects with crores of funding can shuffle/do tricks w their money, we can't.
2/n what can a young person do to get paid? beg, borrow or steal - that they do but what else above and beyond!!! our brains are brain dead in paperwork, juggling the never-ending maze of bureaucracy, both at our parent org & at grant awarding org.
