Technology that creates goods for mass consumption is what makes a country wealthy. Nuclear & Space technology is so different from this.
Don't delude yourself too much- I never said that we don't invest in other fields. We spend 0.9% of our GDP in R&D, that is $66.5 billion in PPP terms making us the sixth largest spender. So that money funds everything from aerospace to drug research. And the development of varieties of rice that requires 70% less water too.
Space & nuclear technologies are important because they're strategic technologies. There are several examples of India using technology for direct societal benefit like the green & white revolution. Even the ATMs made possible using VSAT networks or disaster management using ISRO remote sensing satellites are fine examples of that.
Satellite Images Thwarted The Threat Of Cyclone Phailin: ISRO
Messages From Space Can Tell You Where to Fish
If you're telling that telecommunications & power have no relevance then I would say that you've learned nothing from paying Russians a whopping $11 billion for your first nuclear power plant with zero localization whatsoever.
Or paying the French $250 million for your first 3 tonne, 6kW C/Ku Band satellite, while we Indians build 6 tonne, 15 kW High Throughput Ku/Ka band Satellites for just $80 million.
For Indian policy makers, it is a cheap ploy to get applause by spending millions on this when the basics of its citizens have not yet been mete out.
Obviously that's what a troll from a country which files
ZERO USPTO patents an year- that is scientific output behind sub-Saharan Africa-thinks. The reality is very different. We save & earn money with our Space Program.
ISRO's Antrix Corporation's Records Cumulative $1.1 Billion Revenue - Earns $140 Million Net Profit
Cheap ploy huh ? The world doesn't think so.
Other than Space & Nuclear Technologies we are spending our money on technologies like AUSC technology which reduces carbon emission of thermal power plants by 20% so that countries like Bangladesh doesn't end up under 2 meters of sea.
Cabinet approves financial support to BHEL for R&D project for development of Advanced Ultra Super Critical Technology
And much of our Thermal Power Plants uses Indian developed Steam generators, turbine-generator sets, etc. But you know these does not 'fill the stomachs of and buy the clothes for the poor'.
World Bank: India's poverty rate falls to 12.4%, electricity plays big role
So, at the end of the day, India remains as poor as it was in 1947.
It would take an idiot of the highest order to claim that India remains as poor as it was in 1947. But nothing smart can be expected from you.But still our per capita GDP 2 times yours & our poverty rates are definitely not as worst as yours.
Hindustan....
Hindu.....
Hindi....
You're joking, right ? India is a secular nation with 22 national languages. Hindustan is not the official name of India & it is actually derived from the Persian word Hindu for Sindhu river.
