notechnology India's saving grace in scientific world

Bengaluru, Feb 8: notechnology is the only scientific area where India has a respectable ranking, eminent scientist C.N.R. Rao said on Monday. “India continues to maintain a reasoble record. It is the only area in science where India has a ranking, still number three in the world in the number of publications,” said the scientist, honoured with the country’s highest Bharat Rat honour, at the curtainraiser press conference for ‘Bangalore India no 2016’. According to Rao, India is number three in noscience after the US and Chi and was ahead of Japan, Britain and France. “I look forward to a very very prosperous future in this area (notechnology) and also for the country,” Rao said while admitting that India did not achieve much in his own area of interest as in notechnology. “In my own field of physics and chemistry of materials, we are nowhere like this,” said the chairman of Kartaka’s Vision Group on notechnology. (IANS)