The Centre will soon come up with a new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. This was announced by Science and
Technology minister Vayalar Ravi at an award presentation ceremony in New Delhi today. Mr Ravi said creation and adoption of new scientific techniques is important to make up for deficient natural resources and reduce the demands on capital. He said the key to national prosperity lies in the effective combination of technology, raw materials and the capital.

Addressing the award winning students of the 2nd national level Exhibition and Project Competitions under his ministry's INSPIRE scheme, Mr. Ravi asked students to take to scientific research and innovate in the technology domain in large numbers to enable the country to come up with newer and competitive products. Our correspondent reports, Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research or INSPIRE scheme is a national programme to attract talent amongst students aged 10 to 32 years to study science and pursue career with research.

Mr. Ravi said there is a need to instill scientific temper among people to meet the developmental goals of the nation. Mentioning research and development laboratories being established by the industry, Mr. Ravi asked the students to avail of such opportunities to pursue science education and research.