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Sir
Srinivasa Ramanujam
(1887 – 1920):
Great Indian Mathematician, whose interest from academics
at Trinity, College, Cambridge, led him to collaborate
there and postulate and prove well over 3,542 theorems. |
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SCIENTIFIC
SCENARIO IN WEST BENGAL |
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West Bengal is the gateway to the Eastern and North Eastern
India and geographically it is very close to the South-East
Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.
It is a multilingual and multicultural State, presently with
an industrial growth rate, which is 1.1% higher than the national
average. West Bengal is the fourth largest growing State in
India in the post-reform years with a huge talent pool with
lowest attrition rates. The State has also the lowest cost
of quality living.
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West
Bengal has positioned itself very strongly in the field of
IT and IT enabled services. It is the home
to India’s fastest growing Software Technology Park.
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West
Bengal is the home for large number of premier academic Institutions
like Calcutta University, Jadavpur University,
Bengal Engineering & Science University, IIM Joka, IIT
Kharagpur, ISI Baranagar, Presidency College and St. Xavier’s
College are the important ones to mention.
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West Bengal has the highest per capita expenditure on Education
in India. In the field of general education, West Bengal has
a unique position. Number of State funded institutions offering
general degree (B.A./B.Sc./B.Com.) is 363. With 9 self-financing
colleges the total figure is 372. Similarly
in this State, 126 institutions offer courses in teachers’
education including physical education. Out of these
126 institutions, only 35 are self-financing colleges,
rest are State funded.
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This State has the fortune to have many illustrious scholars,
educationists, scientists and social workers who enriched
the State by their works. Nobel Laureates
like Sir Ronald Ross (1902) – Medicine, Rabindra Nath
Tagore (1913) – Literature, C.V. Raman (1930)- Physics,
Mother Teresa (1979) – Peace, Amartya Sen (1998) –
Economics are among them. The list can further be enlarged
if we include the India-born Noble Laureates like Hargobind
Khurana and Dr. Naipul who worked in a foreign territory and
contributed for the benefit of the mankind.
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From
the pre-independence era West Bengal has been the main center
of scientific research. R&D organisations/institutes like
 Indian
Association for the Cultivation of Science
Indian
Statistical Institute
Bose Institute
Indian
Institute of Experimental Medicine
Indian
Institute of Chemical Biology
Saha Institute
of Nuclear Physics
S.N. Bose
Centre for Basic Sciences
Central
Glass and Ceramic Research Institute
Central
Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMRI)
National
Institute of cholerea & enteric diseases
and several other All India R&D organizations have
registered unique performance in their respective fields. Saha
Institute of Nuclear Physics is the pioneer scientific manpower
training institution in our country where the first electron
microscope of India was indigenously built. |
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