The State's science policy will lay special focus on encouraging research and scientific writing by the youth, said Uttarakhand State Council of Science and Technology (UCOST) director- general Vijay Kumar Dhaundiyal.
He was addressing young scientists at the start of a two-day workshop organised jointly by UCOST and the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) in Dehradun on Tuesday. Addressing the gathering Dhaundiyal stressed on the need for preparing a science roadmap for the State in the near future for facilitating
development in Uttarakhand. The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) chairman cum managing director Dr Rajendra Dobhal exhorted the youth to benefit from the experiences of senior scientists. Appealing them to work to get their research papers published in noted science journals, he elicited focus on the need for improving research paper writing in English. Delivering the theme lecture, Padma Bhushan recipient and former additional director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research, Prof VP Sharma informed the participants in detail about various aspects of scientific paper writing. He also answered the queries raised by the participants on the subject. Various other scientists and academicians also addressed the gathering on the occasion. Two technical sessions were held later on the inaugural day of the workshop.