Chandigarh: The central government, under its 'mid-career scheme', is prepared to help all those young women who want to continue their research work after marriage, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday.
"Women whose research work gets discontinued after marriage and wants to pursue it can contact the ministry which is prepared to help them under a mid-career scheme," he said.
Asserting that the Centre is committed to promote research work, Singh said "if a girl who is carrying out research in Chandigarh and after marriage gets shifted to Kerala and find it difficult to further pursue her work, the government is ready to help them provided they contact the ministry."
He said that the country had infrastructural facilities for research, but lacked in human resource. He said his ministry had made it mandatory for 5,000 scientists of the country to give a lesson to students of schools and colleges for at least 12 hours in an academic year.
Singh expressed concern over rise of metabolic diseases due to lifestyle, including diabetes and hyper tension. Immunology has taken a new lead in the country, he said. Later, he told reporters that buoyed by the success of Mars mission the country will explore other planets too.
"We will send indigenous satellites to other planets," he said. Singh was in the city in connection with a conference organised by Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) here. Institute director Girish Sahni said that the IMTECH here had developed a vaccine for TB and working on developing another for Cholera.
"The IMTECH had tied up with an Australian firm to take the vaccine (to prevent TB) to the market," he said.
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