Sir — Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hit the nail right on the head in stressing on the importance of medical research. India has to catch up with the rest of the world in many areas of scientific research. Brain-drain is both a cause and a consequence of poor research. Except in a few top institutes, Indian scientific research is in its adolescence elsewhere.
One of the reasons for this is the hurdle that the bureaucracy places in the way of serious and bipartisan scientific research and other forms of scholarly work. Clinical research should form a significant part of a medical student’s syllabus even at the under-graduate stage.