Science highlights reported to Indian Parliament
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als community, saying, “recruiting more faculty members with extensive industrial experience would be important to help promote industry–academic collaborations that are critical to the success of the manufacturing centers.” The RAMI bills have gained support from both political parties in both chambers of Congress in part because of the potential for the advanced manufacturing institutes to create jobs. “We know that jobs in the manufacturing industry support more spin-off jobs and have a stronger multiplier effect on our economy,” said Senator Brown in a news release early this year. The Senate version of the RAMI legislation was voted upon on April 9, 2014, and reported favorably out of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation on August 26, 2014. After Committee passage, Senator Blunt said that the RAMI legislation has a lot of support from “the academic community, the high-tech community, as well as the business community,” and expressed optimism regarding passage of the bill. Meanwhile, the House version of the bill passed the House Science Committee in a unanimous vote on July 25, 2014, and garnered 100 bipartisan co-sponsors before it passed the House on September 15, 2014. In a press release after the passage of the RAMI legislation in the House, Representative Reed reiterated the job-creating power
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he status of various scientific issues was reported to the Indian Parliament, Lok Sabha, in August by the Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh. The number of highly cited papers from India has increased by 81% in the 2006–2010 time frame as compared to the 2001–2005 time period. According to the Scopus International database, India reached the ninth position in 2010. “India today is
placed 3rd in the world in terms of scientific publications in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and figures among the top ten countries in terms of h-index,” Singh reported. In the areas of materials and energy, Singh reported that three bioenergy centers have been established to conduct research on synthetic biofuels as well as a systems approach for novel biofuel production. Singh reported that specific support has been given for biohydrogen,
of the bill and said that its passage in the House “is the result of bipartisan partnership and countless input from industry leaders and colleagues on both sides of the aisle.” In the same press release, Representative Kennedy characterized the House’s passage of RAMI as “another step towards the kind of domestic manufacturing policy our country needs to stay on the cutting edge of a global economy.” Although the RAMI legislation has strong support both in the Congress and the White House (President Obama has called for expansion of the advanced manufacturing network), RAMI still faces several hurdles before it can become a law. With the looming midterm elections in November, it is impossible to predict how the 113th Congress will wrap up and if th
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