India is concerned about adequacy of its numbers of scientists and engineers, just as is being felt right across the globe. Elsewhere, strategies in policies and programmes are being reinvestigated constantly and measures taken to balance supply and demand. This requires a piggyback on some kind of science and engineering indicators that are dynamically evolving at a regular frequency. In India, however, present statistics which are relied upon are those in the form of outdated Government indicators such as the 1995-96 data of the Department of Science and Technology, published in 1999, or from borrowed foreign data that are mostly inadequate in nuances of 'India specific indicators'. There is presently no Government independent statistics available off the shelf for science and technology with a 'made in India' label.
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