Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who presented the KAIRALI lifelong success award for researchers to interdisciplinary scholar KP Mohanan at the ceremony held on Wednesday at Thiruvananthapurama
The Chief Minister Pinaraya Vijayan distributed the prestigious Kairali Research Awards at the ceremony, which took place here on Wednesday.
On this occasion, he emphasized the urgent need to solve the challenges facing the research sector in India, especially in terms of financing. While developed nations allocate about 3% of their gross domestic product (GDP) for research, India will spend only a modest 0.6% of their GDP, ”he lamented.
He also expressed concerns about abuse of research funds that are sometimes used to support political ideologies rather than scientific truth.
The main minister also spoke about the decreasing number of research scholarships and scholarships provided by the Research Center over the past five years.
Polyglot Chathanath Achuthanunni, a scientist of PP PP, and a scholarship of KP Mohanan, representing art and humanities, science and social science.
The writer B. Rajeevan, theoretical chemist KL Sebastian and historian Kesavan Veluthat were selected for the Kairali Lifetime Success Prize for researchers. On this occasion, Kairali Gaveshaka Puraskaram for postdocttor research and Kairali Gaveshana Puraskaram for research teachers were also introduced.
The office was chaired by the Minister of Higher Education R. Bindu.
Published – March 26, 2025 21:36
