Crucial to restore momentum for R&D in budget

THE year 2016 must count among the most challenging years for science and R&D in the country. It saw substantial cuts in the budget for R&D.

This has never happened before. Some put the cut at close to 70 percent. It was definitely a painful year for the R&D community. The research universities were especially badly affected not only by the drastic curtailment in R&D actvities but also by the cuts in funding for their contract research professors.