yes. I feel so.

Dear Dr Mahesh, Political interference plays a key role in development of policy and major structural, administrative and other scientific aspect of changes in most of the places. But it is not their fault as most of the key positions are being occupied by the persons who really never love science, but love gossiping, chatting, pampering and.......Scientific hunger is uncommon now-a-days, rather achievement greed predominates. It is easy to influence scientists or experts for achieving either monetary or professional gain, though still a good percentage of devoted scientists are there; may be a little more than 10-30% or so. Scientific greed and pseudo-supremacy or ego dominates majority of scientific persons in India. So, though policy or politicians are a cause for degradation of science, the individualistic approach and intellectual ego with dominance of the nonperformers and oiling individuals are the main reason behind the quality of research and academic performance. If really evaluation will be made on performance and pseudo-scientists/academician performance will be counted for promotion, then only the quality will be achieved. But it is a far from achievable dream. When educationists and politicians are not interested in providing basic education to all, teachers are recruited at ad hoc with 5000-10,000 salary, that too selected in a prejudiced manner in most of the places with a mere budget devoted in primary and higher education; How do we expect it at higher level.

But true scientists are there and will never cease to work despite everything as they love to work, not just to achieve something. However, due to persistent discouragements their numbers are dwindling. Still internal problem is more destructive than the political one, I think