India budget

摘要

Indian scientists were disappointed for a second year by budget allocations for science and technology in the government's 2013-14 budget request. Nine research departments share some US$6.9 billion, a mere 4% more than budgeted for 2012-13, and below the rate of inflation. India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, had promised large increases in science spending from 2012 to 2017, but these have not yet materialized. C. N. R. Rao, who heads the prime minister's science advisory council, says that he is glad that science at least escaped big cuts.