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March 16, 2003
To
Sanjay TEWARI
Institute Of Forest Ecology
Mendel University of Forestry
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uttaranchal_web_watch@hotmail.com <uttaranchal_web_watch@hotmail.com>
Dear Shri Tewari,
Uww has already published
1. First things first in Uttarakhand
2. Uttrakhand and 50 years of Indian Science.
3. Science Driven development of Uttaranchal (3) “Uttaranchal and Professor MGK Menon
The fourth note: Science Driven Development of Uttaranchal (4) : Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and Uttaranchal has also been sent Dr M M Joshi is the current Science Minister and as stated we will have a lot to say about his subsequent work.
The next note Science Driven Development of Uttaranchal (5): Koshiyariji and his 80 days is being forwarded herewith. Shri Koshiyari is the leader of opposition in Uttaranchal and it is understood that he is currently hospitalized in Delhi.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely
(RAM PRASAD)
SYSTEM DIRECTOR
Science Driven Development of Uttaranchal (5): Koshiyariji and his 80 days.
The series Science Driven Development of Uttaranchal was started with the article First things first in Uttarakhand based on an editorial in British Journal Nature (Vol. 275, 21 September 1978, pp. 167-168) that carried the title 'First thing first in the Third World'. This was followed by a review of the 50 years of Indian Science. The views of a former science minister (Professor MGK Menon) and future science minister (Dr M M Joshi) were then brought in to the discussion. This addition covers the efforts of TNORD to educate the Uttaranchal Chief Ministers on the role of science in the development of the new state. Former Chief Minister Koshiyariji had some 80 days to orbit the state. This was a very short time for a pedestrian round and Shri Koshiyari was advised to take a scientific flight. This presentation is compiled from the following four letters
24.11.2001(Shri Koshiyari) Harness developed TNORD MOU with Joshi & Kalam
13.11.2001(Dr M M Joshi) Sustainable politics of Uttaranchal development
16.11.2001(Dr M M Joshi) Overcoming Vittal’s Red Tape Gorilla
08.11.2001(Shri Koshiyari) Al Qaeda of bureaucracy & Intellectual cluster bombs
and accordingly the text has four parts.
Introduction
The state of development would not physically change during Shri Koshiyari’s tenure as Chief Minister, Uttaranchal. This handicap could be compensated by focusing on intellectual front. It took almost the same tenure time for George Bush to prepare for launching Operation Enduring Freedom. The preparation for this operation was covered by intellectual work. Much of this work has already been done by TNORD. Shri Koshiyari could take advantage by agreeing to launch a movement for science driven rural development on the lines of TNORD.
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi is the Minister for Science in Government of India. Shri Bachi Singh Rawat is the Minister of State in the same Ministry. Shri K C Pant is the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission. Gen Khanduri, an Engineer is the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Union Cabinet. The new state of Uttaranchal has come up with a special status. Dr Murli Manohar Joshi has recently been honoured by the Russian Academy of Natural Science. The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India has given up his association with the Govt to devote himself to the roots. TNORD has the authority of an enduring effort of three decades for science driven rural development. There is Joshi-Khanduri MOU for establishing a lens industry in Uttaranchal. The weakness of the state of Uttaranchal to implement this MOU raises many questions. These questions have been discussed in the correspondence presented to Shri Koshiyari. The following table sums up the contents of the correspondence.
The Al Qaeda of administration in our country was designed by Lord McCauley. It was designed to serve the colonial ends. There was no effort to organise an Operation Enduring Freedom. No Al Qaeda was developed to implement Gandhi’s Rachanatmak Karya Krama. The TNORD effort tries to focus on these issues. The above four letters form the text of a different type of research paper. They together try to demonstrate a different culture to facilitate development.
The ongoing body – machine or social system – has to follow the law of diminishing returns after reaching the saturation or maturity point. The spirit of innovation ends at this point. Rules are set and followed ritually. Rules override development. The living system takes care of itself by incorporating rhythmic dialectics in its rules of operation. History is never written on a clean slate. The written slate becomes an old page. Lord McCauley, capitalism, communism, first world war, second world war, atom bomb, computer, internet, etc are objects of the past pages of the history. They are not dead. But there are other objects too which are visualised but not yet realised. These objects are strange to old objects but old objects are not strangers to these new objects. Development has to be oriented to these new objects. The very nature of definition of development takes it off from the party agendas. TNORD programme is filtered through party agendas. Letters are addressed to MPs, Ex-MPs and other stake holders. But the work that does not provide play ground for party politics looses importance. Development has always been non-glamorous. To cover this weakness, it is necessary to launch an intense intellectual operation enduring freedom to persuade authorities as it has been attempted here.
I
Harness potentials of Drs Joshi and Kalam
As mentioned in our letter dated Nov 8, 2001, we consider Uttaranchal as a laboratory for development and you as its new director. In that letter we brought to your kind notice how the Russian honour to Dr Murli Manohar Joshi can be treated as a new resource for the development of Uttaranchal. We later addressed two letters to Dr. Joshi in the same connection and copies of the same are enclosed.
In the meantime I had a telephonic talk with Bharat Ratna Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, who till recently was the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. It may be possible to associate Dr Kalam with the development of Uttaranchal. The news weekly Outlook published an interview with Dr Kalam. Presented below is TNORD reaction on the relevant excerpts of this interview.
Dr Kalam: “Economic growth comes from the integrated growth of technology, infrastructure, education and, above all the urge to market our products…The nation has to market Indian products which have brand value. It should also share its civilisational qualities for world peace. G-8 leaders visit other countries to market their equipment and systems with nicely-packaged political agenda. Recently I visited Tripura, Assam and Jharkhand. All these states have abundant natural and human resources. There should be integrated projects in mission-mode, unique for a particular state and funded in an integrated way.”
TNORD: The observations of Dr Kalam are particularly important in relation to the newly created Uttaranchal state. There is a nicely packaged development agenda that seeks establishment of a lens industry in the region. There is Joshi-Khanduri MOU that envisages funding of the projects of the programme dedicated to the establishment of a technological nursery for optics research and development in an integrated way. Dr Murli Manohar Joshi has recently been honoured by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for his work on sustainable consumption. This amounts to marketing of Indian thoughts on civilisational qualities for world peace. TNORD can also be utilised as a demonstration model for this Indian thought ready for international intellectual market.
Dr Kalam: “In my career of 43 years, I’ve changed my area of work almost every 10 years. Change brings new thoughts, new thoughts lead to innovative actions. From August 2001, I have been visiting many states. I have addressed about 15,000 students, mostly in high schools. I shared their imaginations. I have found that I can communicate well with them. Think I can ignite in their minds a love for science and the nation’s mission: a developed India.”
TNORD: Drs Murli Manohar Joshi and Abdul Kalam share the summit of Indian Science. The above synthesis of the two in TNORD programme is extremely interesting. Dr Kalam’s decision to leave the space and enter the roots is very significant. He hopes to devote himself to the roots of Indian masses. There is, however, a formidable barrier between the roots of Indian masses and his target, that is students, mostly in high schools. This barrier of literacy has to go. Man must be reached in his natural dialect.
Dr Kalam: On page 33 the same news-weekly carries an impression by Anita Pratap on Rebuilding India. This impression observes: “They are also supporting the introduction of science and technology in the 30 villages around Kanchipuram. Spearheading this movement is Missile Man Abdul Kalam, a key supporter of the Kanchi Math.” In its quiet unobtrusive way, the Kanchi Math truly symbolises the spirit of Hinduism – a way of life more tolerant, philosophical and non-didactic than any other religion in the world. Located in the heart of Kanchipuram, the Kanchi Math, the seat of the Shankarachayras for 2500 years, is so nondescript that you could actually miss it.-
TNORD: Religion is some thing, which is conveyed to the man in his own dialect. Religion, although a social reality and not a natural reality, has thus become a part of the belief which is naturally conveyed from one generation to the other within the social range, which is the community. This is why religion works as primary governance for human society. As the society evolves it becomes complex and becomes a battle ground of conflicting orders that are created in the process of evolution. The orders that are more tolerant, philosophical and non-didactic survive. In the age of science, science and the science of science cannot be ignored and it has to deep as in the case of the Kanchi Math.
‘Strength respects strength’ was the philosophy on which Dr Kalam worked while he was at the Defence work. We coined a parallel philosophy ‘confidence wins confidence’. This philosophy coin should also work for the development of Uttaranchal. Uttaranchal must muster confidence in order to acquire strength. There is, however, something more than the above philosophy and that something drives Dr Kalam to give up the ongoing business and start a new one.
Dr Kalam proposes to communicate with high school students to interest them in his dream of developed India. It is obvious from the middle excerpt in the above table that Dr Kalam means a business far different from what he has been officially engaged in for 43 years. But the third excerpt is related to his unofficial business at the Kanchi Math to build a more tolerant, philosophical and non-didactic society in 30 surrounding villages. Such a society would provide enduring freedom to man to live, to work and to develop. The term enduring freedom is used here to take advantage of the non-didactic demonstration of the Operation Enduring Freedom, which was originally christened as Operation Infinite Justice. The commanding role of operational science to achieve end objectives rather than preaching them is obvious. This in a way is reiteration of the theory of technological nurseries and industrial orchards. TNORD would like to get associated with his activities. This is possible if your government provides adequate financial support to TNORD. There is already Joshi-Khanduri MOU on TNORD and the state support will enable us to implement the MOU very effectively.
II
Interaction with Dr MM Joshi : Joshi-Khanduri MOU
Shri Gopi Arora was the Commissioner of Kumaun when the university held the seminar “Science and Rural Development in Mountains (Nainital,3-5 November 1978). He chaired the session that made recommendations for TNORD type development. A book bearing the title of the seminar and highlighting its Ecological, Socio-Economical and Technological Aspects” was edited by S Singh, S P Singh and C Shastri and published by Gyanodaya Prakashan, Naini Tal. While TNORD took a long time to take a shape and is still working to survive, the Chinese implemented the same idea through Spark and Village and Township programmes. Shri Arora considers the survival of TNORD as a miracle.
This miracle, in a way, is a practical demonstration of the theory of sustainable consumption for which the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences has recently honoured you. TNORD has studied the later part of your international address and found that the ideas can be implemented. It took first the central paragraph and sent the study for consideration by MPs, Ex-MPs from Uttaranchal and other stake holders of the movement. It was perhaps the oath-taking time of Shri Koshiyari when I happened to meet you in the CSIR corridor. TNORD, therefore, took the opportunity to write a different kind of welcome letter to the new Chief Minister, Uttaranchal. This letter carried the concluding part of your address and parallel TNORD comments. The point is to implement what we call Joshi-Khanduri MOU on Science backed Development of Uttaranchal.
For the emerging state of Uttaranchal it is important not to overlook the underlying social, political, cultural and philosophical factors which drive consumption and production. It is hoped that Shri Koshiyari will take advantage of the advice you have made in your address. We may also add two preceding paragraphs of your address to the paragraphs already discussed. These have been discussed in the following table.
Dr M M Joshi: As I have been arguing at various fora in our approach to science and technology we often tend to overlook the underlying social, political, cultural and philosophical factors which drive consumption and production. In a situation where unbridled consumer choice is unquestionably accepted as a value it is impossible to go beyond technocratic and economistic approaches to sustainability. I have been emphasising in some of my earlier speeches and I repeat again that a purely economic and technological solution to unsustainable forms of production and consumption is an impossibility because production and consumption are social acts and un-sustainability is primarily a social problem. Social problems apparently created by technology cannot be solved by the application of yet more technology. Social problems have to be understood in terms of social value systems and values have to change fundamentally for the problems to be resolved.
TNORD: The planet earth has been the playground of the living system. Things have worked in sustainable mode till the man started playing with science and technology and crossed the sustainability limits. But nature has its own dialectics. Engles and other Marxist thinkers studied this phenomenon in their classical works. But the same dialectics were also discussed long ago in Bhagwadgita. Lenin regarded war as the politics of peace and peace as the politics of war. Currently the dialects of contemporary human society are being discussed peacefully at the WTO level and violently at the level of the Operation Enduring Freedom. The solution to current problems does not lie at these two visible sites. Freedom is endurable only if the operations start from the root level in Gandhian Utility Mode, which we call Gumod in TNORD language. The term Gandhian Utility is a re-christianed title to represent Gandhiji’s work ‘Rachnatnamak Karyakrama’
Dr M M Joshi: The social context in which we live today is dominated by the phenomenon of globalisation. Globalisation, of course, means many things to many people. To many it is a threat to an insular protectionist existence – a juggernaut which must be resisted as long as possible. To many others it is the inevitable march of modern science and technology led by giant trans-national corporations into ever new markets and the subjugation of diverse economies into a homogenised common economic order. Some few, however, seen in it a rare opportunity for rediscovering and reinventing the inter-relatedness of the universe, of the entire humanity, of man and man, of man and nature. The challenge is to see how this latter meaning of globalisation can be made the part of new global ‘commonsense’ and how we employ science and technology to produce this common sense.
TNORD: The term globalisation can be understood only in dialectic language. TNORD is extensively using this tactics in its studies. Pallavi Dhyani calls it i-business and she has discussed the point in terms of Gumod and Agra Summit. We may term the tactics as i-business. In this i-business we may use singularisation or particularisation as the paired opposite of globalisation. In a way the tactics is an integral part of the Operation Enduring Freedom when the press describes biscuit as the paired opposite of bomb. The language of biscuit and the language of the bomb are the same – mechanical and hostile. Every thing is in war mode. The paired opposite of this mode is Gumod. It has no role today as the war is on. War is the commonsense today. We may take this as a non-sense. But the sense of root development – community reconstruction is better understood by this non-sense.
The first part of your address discusses why sustainability is the central issue that we need to address. TNORD shows the way it can be achieved. But the ideas are like Devaki’s infants, which are killed by Kansa as soon as they are born. Your concept of sustainable consumption has to be shifted to Gokul in order to make it survive. TNORD can perhaps be the cradle and Uttaranchal its Gokul. Joshi-Khanduri MOU is the guideline. It is already under processing and we would request you to kindly take interest in this direction.
III
Interaction with Dr MM Joshi : Operation Enduring Freedom against Bureaucracy
TNORD hopes to implement the contents of your Russian address. In our recent years we have compared TNORD effort with the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’. We are up against the Taliban of bureaucracy. Being a young organisation TNORD has the legitimacy of handpicking our strategies. The concept of sustainable consumption also enjoys the same legitimacy. But bureaucracy has its own legitimacy to block development. There is, therefore, an intrinsic conflict in the developmental process. The target of the “Operation Enduring Freedom” hopes to go guerrilla and this gives us a legitimacy to study N Vittal’s famous book. For the time being we have discussed the following excerpts from the author’s preface.
Vittal: Introducing the chapter on Innovative Approach to Development, N Vittal observes: “Development poses a major challenge to anyone in administration today. I have had my share of challenges also. Again I have developed certain concepts regarding the techniques that can be adopted for development. For example, some places, which are backward, are like the sleeping beauty in the fairy tale, which can be brought to life at the kiss of a prince. Certain areas require the treatment given by Prof. Higgins to Eliza Doolittle to transform her from a flower girl into My Fare Lady. Yet another strategy is to have a vision of development like Michaelango. When asked how he made beautiful statues out of marble, which is shapeless, he said that he had the vision of the statue to be carved out in his mind. He merely removed from the marble block whatever was not part of the state. And, lo and behold, the statue was there.” –
TNORD: Being a new state Uttaranchal should take the advantage of such works as “The Red Tape Guerrilla” by N Vital (Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 1996). The governance is the key problem of development. Being a new state, Uttaranchal has the advantage of hand picking its priorities and preferences. One year is over. The Chief Minister was hand picked and so were the other ministers and the Governor. But the administrative machinery was inherited from the parent state. The reason for separation was the question of development, which according to N Vittal poses a major challenge. The fairy tale did not work. There was no sleeping beauty. The new prince of governance did not succeed to enliven it. The new state will have to work resort to innovating approaches to convert Eliza into My Fair Lady and also develop the vision of development like Michaelango.
Vittal: Finally, Vittal adds, “I always admired a story told by Shri T A Pai, the former minister and banker and a multi-splendoured personality. It appears that a rat was being harassed by a cat. It went to the owl, the wise bird, for advice. The owl said: “You have been harassed, because you are a rat, whereas your opponent is a cat. If you also become a cat, then there will be no problem.” In principle, it was very sound advice. The next day the rat went to the owl again and said: “I agree in principle that if I changed from a rat to a cat, I would have no problem. But could you please tell me how I could become a cat?” The owl then pulled itself to his full professorial length and said: “I am here to give you policy directions and advice; implementation is your problem!”-
TNORD: In a way the strategy already exists in TNORD’s scheme of things. The progress, however, is so slow that Prof. Paintal is worried if TNORD is trying to implement owl’s advice. The progress was very slow in the case of “Operation Enduring Freedom” as well. In the case of TNORD this fear does not matter. Shri T A Pai was thrilled when, as the science minister in the Govt. of India, the concept of technological nurseries and industrial orchards was brought to his notice when a delegation met him for organising a symposium on social and political obstacles in the application of science and technology in developing countries. He readily agreed to support the proposal. TNORD has been created on that understanding. The new state can use this for administration of development.
TNORD hopes to work on what we understand as Joshi-Khanduri MOU in our writings. What we feel is that the Ministers should work in mission mode to overcome the tactics of obstructions by the system. We hope to receive your full support.
IV
Resource Mobilisation for Operation Enduring Freedom against under development
We consider Uttaranchal as a laboratory for development and you as its new director. This line of approach is necessary to initiate Switzerland type development in the new state. Uttaranchal has a better resource position than Switzerland. It is closer to the equator. It also lies in the Monsoon belt. It receives more water and it receives more solar energy. Water is the key resource on this planet. It is the source of life. Altitude is another resource. Storing of water at high altitudes amounts to possessing wealth and power. The dedication of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi to the filed of sustainable consumption is another advantage for the new state. He has been recently awarded the knighthood for science, technology and development by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for this dedication. I happened to meet him while you were being sworn in as the Chief Minister – there was a brief reference about your new role.
Dr. Joshi gave me a copy of the address he delivered at the time of conferment of the honour. In TNORD letter addressed to MPs, Ex-MPs and other stakeholders in the development of Uttaranchal one of the paragraphs of this addressed was studied. A copy of this letter (dated November 3) was sent to you as well. The text following this paragraph has also been studied and this study is reproduced in the table given below:
Dr M M Joshi: In July last year, both at Moscow and in this city I shared with you my reflections on the concept of ‘sustainable consumption’ and my vision of a future based on the ideals of sustainability. I had argued that we need to take action at multitudinous levels – at the level of epistemology and scientific knowledge production processes so as to restore the centrality of social, ethical and spiritual values to the knowledge production process; at the level of educational processes which makes education not a packaged commodity to be sold and distributed to passive consumer but an active process of discovery, exploration and learning; at the level of technology development and production to institutionalise policies, structures and managerial processes which prevent or eliminate the use of unsustainable technologies and stimulate the use of sustainable ones; at the level of structures of governance; at the level of social system design.
TNORD: The living system has a built in mechanism, by which it lives and learns. It is characterised by rhythmic operations of dialectics that include existence and non-existence – that is life and death. The built in mechanism of natural education can be modified by artificial means available in the society in which the living system resides. But the sustainable character of the living system is disturbed in this process. For example, in today’s reality there is a conflict between Talibanism and Operation Enduring Freedom and this conflict has driven the issue of sustainability out of sight. Such things have happened in the past whenever a social order seeks solutions for its own contradictions. It is hoped that the operation enduring freedom will make freedom of life on this planet enduring. The vast countrysides all over the world need intervention of the high-end knowledge through nursery-orchard concept of technology application.
Dr M M Joshi: I do not propose to repeat what I had elaborated in considerable detail then. I only wish to reiterate the importance of an integrative, comprehensive and holistic approach to bring about an urgently needed paradigm shift. It is my fervent hope that the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, which has taken on itself the ambitious mission of bringing about the economic and spiritual renaissance of Russia will join hands with concerned and responsible intellectual leaders of the world to help in redrawing the agenda for and the vision of a sustainable future. As an honorary member, I hope that I will have some opportunity of playing a role in this process.-
TNORD: All that the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences could do is to bestow “Knighthood of Science, Technology and Development” upon Dr Joshi. Sky is the limit for the opportunity that Dr Joshi has as an honorary member of the Academy. After my meeting with Dr Joshi I had a talk with Dr V S Ramamurthy, Secretary, DST, to know if any other agency in the country is working on the ideas on sustainable consumption. The ideas on sustainable consumption are Dr Joshi’s own. I contacted Prof. A Rehman, a noted authority on history of science who is known for his left leanings. I was surprised to hear from him compliments for Dr Joshi’s scholarship.
Dr M M Joshi: I would like to conclude with a poignant call given by that great educational thinker from Latin America, the late Dr. Ivan Illich:
“I and many others known and unknown to me call upon you:
“To celebrate our joint power to provide all human beings with the food, clothing and shelter they need to delight in living. To discover, together with us, what we must do to use mankind’s power to create the humanity, the dignity and the joyfulness of each of us.
“To be responsibly aware of your personal ability to express your true feelings and to gather us together in their expression. We can only live these changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, and every group with which we live and work, must become the model of the era which we desire to create. The many models which will develop should give each one of us an environment in which we can celebrate our potential – and discover the way into a more humane world.
“The call is to live the future. Let us join together joyfully to celebrate our awareness that we can make our life today the shape of tomorrow’s future.”-
TNORD: How to implement the call in the real world today when most destructive weapons of all types are being used to establish Enduring Freedom? TNORD’s August 23 letter to Dr Joshi discussed the observation in his inaugural address at the International Seminar on “Strengthening Technology Networks: Vision, Missions & Actions” (New Delhi, 10th February, 2000) “the more we discover the interconnections, the more we will appreciate the unity amongst the immense diversity.” It concluded: “Now that TNORD has been advised to establish contact and linkages with the DST Mission Mode programme on the development of the State of Uttaranchal through Shri YS Rajan for necessary grants, its experience of working in General Utopian Mode (Gumod) can be utilised by your Ministry for strengthening technology networks in the country. The concept of Monads, described by Leibniz as simple, mind-like substances of which the world is made up, may be fashioned to design futures for the country and the world as a whole. As the Minister for Science & Technology and Human Resource Development, you assure the industry and business all the help required. The i-business of TNORD also comes under the cover of this assurance. The spirit of your letter to Gen. Khanduri confirms this assurance. But the taste of assurance, as Confucius argued, lies in implementation of these assurances by DST.”
Dr M M Joshi: I do believe that this Academy would usher in an era of peace, prosperity and cooperation among nations. Let us all join together in creating a non-exploitative, non-violent human society. Honoured colleague scientists and friends, once again I thank you for the rare privilege you have given me of becoming a member of your prestigious Academy as also for listening to me with patience.-
TNORD: In order to make the Russian and other academies of the world take interest in our words we have to make our own ideas live. The state of Uttaranchal has just come up. Its leadership is raw. It is illiterate in the matters of development and governance. In words of Dr Illich successful implementation of TNORD can provide “a model of the era which we desire to create.”
Dr. Joshi is quite serious about experimenting with his ideas on sustainable consumption. TNORD can be a convenient laboratory for the purpose. He has suggested to General Khanduri that TNORD should establish contact and linkages with the Mission Mode programme of DST. TNORD needs the state support in this connection and we tried to establish contact and linkage with the former Chief Minister. The following table gives a list of the communications sent to him.
10.11.2000 (Building New Uttaranchal)
Scientific organisation of development of the new state
16.11.2000 (TNORD & Globalisation Dump)
Extraction of Uttaranchal Agenda from Hindustan Reports
18.11.2000 (Science Push for Uttaranchal)
Introduction to letter of 16.11.2000 to MPs, Ex MPs and other stakeholders
12.12.2000 (Build Uttaranchal Resources )
A commentary on Rajendra Dhasmana’s Jansatta article
19.12.2000 (TNORD & Chinese Dumping)
PM’s concern over Chinese dumping and the role of TNORD
24.12.2000(Reinvestment R&D)
Supplementary information on TNORD and Chinese Dumping
31.12.2000(Facilitation of TNORD plan)
Uttaranchal production - Revival of the cutting edge of technology
05.01.2001(Meeting with Uttaranchal CM)
New Economics – Analysis to prevent paralysis of Uttaranchal
09.01.2001(Live Vision Research)
Prof. Indiresan and Hidden Lines of the CSIR History
16.01.2001(Prof Indiresan's Uttaranchal)
Role of TNORD as the charge of light brigade in the developmental war
20.01.2001(Science & Tourism )
Copy of letter to the Minister of Science and Tourism
23.01.2001(Indiresan provoked response)
1978 Nainital recommendations on science and mountain development
24.01.2001(Rich opportunity for Science)
Utilising Uttaranchal headed science, technology and planning
25.01.2001 (Science & Republic Day )
Utilising the TIFAC committee on the development of Uttarakhand
10.02.2001(Tech for disaster management)
Utilising TNORD as a nursery for organisation of disaster management
18.02.2001 (Tech Nursery is the Spark)
The Hindu Big Fight, technological nurseries and the Chinese spark
07.03.2001(R&D leads investment)
Investing root based cultural energy for development
08.03.2001(Concept of site development)
There must be flowers to make investment bees sit – the Chinese case
14.03.2001(Importance of being Fonia)
Discussion of the Times of India Q&A\Kedar Singh Fonia Head for the Hills
16.04.2001 (Uttaranchal in Info-age)
Managing chaos in development and development in chaos
18.04.2001(Site representations )
-Extending the role of Pauri Garhwal Vikas Sangthan in TNORD context
19.04.2001(Authorities – site and website)
Virtual exhibition of Swadeshi in Swadeshi dot com
30.04.2001(Site authorities for development)
Development –Rhythm of Corridor talks and ground reality at sites
11.05.2001 (National Technology Day 2001)
Technology can make ‘Maila Anchal’ shining white
19.06.2001(TNORD on the mission drive)
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi’s letter to Gen Khanduri (Mimod vs Gumode)
27.06.2001 (Mission mode for TNORD)
Linking Nainital recommendations with the Almora recommendations
24.07.2001(I-busines of Agra Summit)
Making unemployment problem the core issue for Uttaranchal
08.08.2001(Uttaranchal Grant of Rs 15 lakhs)
TNORD as the Palo Alto Research Centre for Uttaranchal
TNORD has been studying Joshi Dialectics along with the Paintal Phenomenon that concerns the illiteracy of the literates. What is the good of literacy if it is not utilised to read and write. According to Dr A S Paintal, one of the foremost of the living scientists in India, communications often go unattended leave alone the deep studies. This is true not only in the context of TNORD texts but also the texts of other scholars including Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi. Dr. Joshi is in power and a new state like Uttaranchal can be benefited by asking science to offer solutions for the problems of the state.
Dr Murli Manohar Joshi was in the Opposition when the Golden Jubilee Session of Parliament was held. He delivered the only science speech in this session. He observed: “I was expecting a discussion on science and technology along with industrial policy or defence policy but the opportunity did not come. Perhaps we are waiting for them in the 21st century. When this century arrives we may have an opportunity to discuss these matters.” When this century arrived he found him on the driver’s seat. He got an opportunity to implement his ideas in UP hills. There was a three-day workshop in Almora. TNORD discussed the outcome. The following titles of this discussion provide windows to look at the workshop from different angles:
Almora Inaugural Function(Almora Workshop)
Value of Almora Convergence vs 1945 CSIR Committee Report
Almora inaugural address (Almora Working Groups)
Himnad & Almora Convergence(The Hindu Discussion)
Almora Plenary(N Murthy for Uttaranchal)
Indiresan provoked response-
Almora Round Table(TNORD & Almora Vision )
Science Mushahira (Almora)-
TNORD was not a participant at the workshop. The picture projected from these windows is a reconstruction from the secondary reflections including the official record notes and recommendations. Uttarakhand was the object under observation. Later Uttarakhand emerged as a separate state. This new state has the benefit of the Almora convergence and the scholarly background of TNORD. The new state has the underlying mechanism to lead a movement for building a research relevance rhythm at least for establishing a lens industry in Uttaranchal. A success of this mission may create a new enthusiasm within the country to start a new movement for science driven rural development.