Former President A P J Abdul Kalam felicitated the six winners.
One possible way of accelerating National Education Policy's outcome is to invite 10,000 retired highly accomplished teachers from the developed world and from India in STEM areas to create 2,500 "Train the Teacher" colleges in the country's 28 states and eight union territories, Murthy said.
The Infosys Science Foundation on Monday announced the winners of the Infosys Prize 2010 recognizing outstanding contributions to scientific research that have impacted India.
Infosys felicitates outstanding researchers in various fields.
The Infosys Science Foundation on Thursday awarded winners of Infosys Prize 2010 recognising their outstanding achievements in scientific research.
'India is a country where many of the problems need local solutions and some be solved using basic science.'
Infosys Science Foundation announced 2011 prize winners across five categories.
The annual award includes a pure gold medal, a citation and a prize purse worth $ 100,000 or its equivalent in the Indian rupees.
Nilekani said the issue has been blown out of proportion as Aadhaar have built far too many security layers and it is not possible to randomly pore it.
Nilekani is an organised person and his strength is simplification of complex ideas, said Murthy.
India needs to invest a lot more money in science research and translate this research into products and solutions for its people, says trustee at the Infosys Science Foundation and co-founder at Infosys Kris Gopalakrishnan.
Infosys' spending on research and development has registered a decline.
The company's net profit stood at Rs 2,875 crore (Rs 28.7 billion) in the same period last year.
Vishal Sikka said such a plan is on the anvil.
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