New Delhi: Over 5,000 “highly accomplished” scientists working with various departments under the ministry of science and technology will devote time to impart education to students of schools and colleges.
Announcing the decision, Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh said, that it was decided after drawing inspiration from PM Narendra Modi’s interaction with school students on Teachers’ Day during which he said, “each one of us engage ourselves in some kind of teaching”. “I am glad to announce that we are going to make it mandatory for the scientists in our departments to actually, formally, take lecture in schools and colleges. It is a new concept for a country like India,” Mr Singh said. He said that this kind of engagement would be “free of any honorarium” and it would be part of the duty the scientists have already committed to do.
