Acknowledgement
On behalf of all my colleagues may I acknowledge the great support in the form of a research grant of a Supra-institutional project provided by Prof. S.K.Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR, and Dr. Naresh Kumar, Head, RDPD, CSIR and Dr. Chandra Gupt, RDPD, CSIR, that made possible research undertaken to writing this Report. We must mention that without the support from this Supra project grant this research would have been impossible.
Since its inception the Research Council of NISTADS, with its Chairman Prof. S.K.Joshi, and members Sh. R.Rajamani, Prof. S. Khanna, Prof. Anil Gupta, Dr. H.R.Bhojwani, Dr. Anuj Sinha, Dr. S.K.Rastogi, Dr. Gangan Prathap, Dr. Prasanna Hota, Dr. Chandra Gupt and Prof. Ashok Chandra et al took special care to interact very regularly with all contributing colleagues and by reviewing as well guiding the research from time to time. The suggestions the Council chairman and members provided were most vital. We acknowledge gratefully their contribution.
At several stages we benefitted greatly from reviewing comments and suggestions from senior colleagues in other organizations. Dr. S.K.Sikka, Dr. Ashok Jain, Prof. Deepak Kumar, Ms. Smita Chugh, Dr. D.S. Gangwar, et al provided important insights and clues to making better the report.
Several scholars read through the voluminous full report. We are obligated to them for the interest they shown on this work and for the comments they provided and for the time they spent on reading the full report. Special mention must be made of Dr. Rangan Dutta, Prof. Biswatosh Saha, Dr. P.K.Biswas, Sh. R.Rajamani and Dr. H.R.Bhojwani and several others who very kindly took care in making better the full report.
Several other research and academic colleagues participated at various stages of development of this report; their number is large and we acknowledge our debts to all of them. The inability to publish all such names be condoned.
Several academic and researcher colleagues from institutes and universities outside the CSIR system have contributed to this report; especially Dr. Rangan Dutta and Prof. P.K. Biswas have contributed in more than many ways. Support provided by Dr. A.K. Verma (Advisor S&T, Planning Commission) and his colleagues is duly acknowledged. My young colleagues from NISTADS spent months of hard working days and nights; they are the contributors and it must be mentioned that without their dedication this report would not have been possible. Adding to this labour was the dedicated input in preparing the web-pages by student-trainees from IIT, Kharagpur. Our colleagues from administration, finance and purchase sections and other technical officers have also contributed in many ways. Finally, Dr. Gangan Prathap, Director, NISCAIR and his team must be acknowledged for printing the extended summary of this voluminous report.
June 20, 2009
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