Team Herald
PANJIM: COVID-19 has brought into the country a clarion call for everyone to rebuild, recover, and re-imagine ourselves in order to achieve Atmanirbhar Bharat, said Padma Vibhushan, Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar.
He was delivering a talk on “Building Atmanirbhar Bharat with Atmabishwas” under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Summer Research Training Programme (CSIR-SRTP), 2020, programme coordinated by the North East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST).
Dr Mashelkar said, “In our endeavour to attain self-reliance or Atmanirbhar Bharat, we cannot isolate ourselves from the world but integrate with the global supply chain,” He emphasized on five pillars of ‘atmanirbharata’ – Buy, Make, Buy to make better, Make to buy better, and Make it together (building public-private partnerships). He added that he has unequivocal confidence in the youth power of the country, which needs to be harnessed with a back-up of technology and trust, for India to flourish.
Dr Mashelkar was of the view that the ‘Make in India’, initiative should not only focus on assembling products, but inventing in India as well.
“Assembling products will no doubt create jobs, but for newer substitutes, we need to do vigorous research. Underlining the importance of research, he said research converts money into knowledge and innovation converts knowledge into money, so both needs to go hand in hand for the country to prosper. “We have talent and technologies but now we need to build trust or believe in our capabilities,” he added.
