India’s Development of Science and Technology Policies

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Piyanat Soikham

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to study development and factors affecting India’s science and technology policies; 2) to understand India’s education system and infrastructure supporting the development of science and technology. This research employed documentary research with systematic reviews from relavant documents from 1947 upto the present. 
The research results were as follows:
1. India had five policies on science and technology including 1958, 1983, 2003, 2013 and 2020.
2. Factors affecting India’s science and technology policies were as follows; constitution, political leaders, decentrazation, socialist economy, globalization, scientific temper, and indigenous technology.
3. The education system and infrastructure supporting India’s development of science and technology includes; the intergration of government, education and private sectors; the promotion of science and technology in basic and advance education; and the national and international human resource development.

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