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Some of the major activities and responsibilities of the NS3F will be to:
- Identify major unsolved problems in various areas of science and social sciences
and individuals, groups and / or institutions who can work on them to provide
India leadership.
- Identify and set up studies on (a) relationships of science with other areas of
human concern such as economics, sociology, politics, art and literature, and viceversa,
and (b) social, economic, political, legal, moral and ethical implications of
advances in science and technology
- Identify and set up studies on futuristic interdisciplinary areas in real time
- Recommend steps that would help inculcate scientific temper amongst the people
of the country as envisioned in the constitution
- Help the government set up systems that would remove bureaucratic hurdles,
increase professional, social and financial accountability; and recognize that
creativity in science and social sciences like in all creative endeavors is nonhierarchical
- Identify and set up studies to find solutions to the problems of the poor and the
underprivileged by translating the advances in science and technology
- Recommend strategies (scientific, technological and social) that would provide
additional employment in the rural sector and help set up mechanisms for their
implementation with the cooperation of Government, industry and NGOs
- Recommend steps for optimizing the use of our natural resources (including
marine resources)
- Help set up systems for documentation, standardization where necessary,
validation and use of our traditional knowledge. Ensure that the custodians and
providers of such knowledge and wisdom are identified, are involved in the above
process, and share benefits accruing from the use of such knowledge.
- Set up policies for international cooperation in science and social sciences.
- Serve as a platform for the coming together of various departments, organizations
and agencies of the Government that are concerned with scientific and social
science research and related developmental work, to optimally utilize their
collective knowledge and capabilities.
- Set up a mechanism for close interaction between state-funded scientific and
social science organizations, private sector and responsible and effective NGOs
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