We in independent India have used science and technology for our national development. Former Prime Minister Nehru gave the clarion Call: “let us make friends with science.” ……………………………… A country devastated by the wounds of partition, poverty and pestilence, rallied together through the application of science and technology. We rid ourselves of smallpox and polio, jumped our food grain output from 50 million tons to 270 million in a matter of 60 years.