Scientific development has not helped the nation progresses as most of the technologies do not relate to our social context. There is a need for development of technology that is appropriate for industry, N.P. Chaubey, organising secretary of 38th Indian Social Science Congress, has said.
Calling for introspection on what types of technology that has to be developed, he said there was a need for comprehensive deliberations on knowledge. He was speaking at the inaugural of the five-day 38th Indian Social Science Congress that got under way here on Sunday.
The Indian Academy of Social Sciences was planning to conduct a conclave of all political parties where each party would be asked to spell out its stand on education and take a promise from them to follow it, Dr Chaubey said.
Welcoming the move to get all political parties to make their stand clear on education, Union Minister of Urban Affairs M. Venkaiah Naidu said that for a successful democracy, political parties need ideology, leadership and cadre. Unfortunately these were missing in most parties today, he noted.
