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President Kovind bats for more women scientists, technologists
President of India Ram Nath Kovind expressed the hope that more number of women scientists and technocrats would come in taking India to new heights. Mentioning the ‘Missile Woman of India’ Tessy Thomas, the first woman scientist led a missile project in India, the President expressed his concern towards gender equality particularly in research relating to science and technology.
Visakhapatnam: President of India Ram Nath Kovind expressed the hope that more number of women scientists and technocrats would come in taking India to new heights. Mentioning the ‘Missile Woman of India’ Tessy Thomas, the first woman scientist led a missile project in India, the President expressed his concern towards gender equality particularly in research relating to science and technology.
Inaugurating the Defence Research and Development Centre (Centre for Defence Studies), e-classroom complex, an incubation centre, classrooms and laboratory complex at Andhra University campus here on Thursday, President Kovind said that the overall gender imbalance in our scientific and technological institutions continues to be a serious concern.
However, the President expressed his happiness after noticing that 40 percent of the 1,200 students in science and technology department are girls. He hoped that the new infrastructure and facilities which he inaugurated would enhance the country’s defence capabilities and produce high quality women engineers. “A true test of India’s progress is in the access and opportunity that we provide our daughters when it comes to education,” the President added.
Kovind said that the professors and researchers of Andhra University were collaborating on specific projects with DRDO as well as with the Naval Research Board and other institutions. The expertise of professors from Andhra University have been utilised as consultants for missile projects including in the development of the Brahmos missile, the President said.
The President called upon the Defence Research and Development Centre of the AU jointly with the Union Defence Ministry to focus on cyber-security, nano-technology, radar and communications, corrosion technology and other technologies that have strategic dimensions.
Andhra University has a proud legacy in the country. Our second President and my distinguished predecessor the scholar and academic Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and the present Vice-President M Venkaiahnaidu were from the University, the President added. Governor and Chancellor of Andhra University ESL Narasimhan, addressing the gathering, said that the Centre for Defence Education should focus on the cyber-security, IT and other technology challenges.
He said that the centre would show the ways to the new challenges and issues in the related subjects. In his address, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu assured the gathering that his government would provide all the infrastructure facilities to upgrade the Andhra University into a world class institute. He appealed to the faculty members to make the University to compete with the top 50 world class Universities. Vice-Chancellor G Nageshwar, in his welcome address, highlighted the role of the Andhra University during the last 92 years.
