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Purandeswari stresses on R&D

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HYDERABAD: Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development D. Purandeswari said the time has come to repeat the revolutionary growth story of telecommunications in other sectors too to enable India emerge as a global economic power.

Ms. Purandeswari who released the book ‘Telecoms, IT and Society’ authored by T.H. Chowdary, former IT Advisor to State Government at Administrative Staff College of India on Saturday, said that Dr. Chowdary covered the fascinating growth story of how liberalisation helped telecommunications sector grow by leaps and bounds.

Agreeing with author’s view that India needed to invest on indigenous R&D, Ms. Purandeswari said that India spent only 0.3 to 0.4 per cent of its GDP on R&D compared to 3 per cent of GDP in developed countries.

Though India earned reputation as an IT power, it was buying solutions from other countries due to no investment in R&D, she said. Dr. Chowdary giving credit for ushering in telecom revolution to late Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao through liberalisation policy initiated by him, said telecom was one sector where fruits of liberalisation were enjoyed by every one across sections. It should happen in other sectors like power, he added.

Dr. R.K.Bagga of IIIT and ASCI Director General S.K. Rao spoke.

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