GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.701
TO BE ANSWERED ON 26-11-2007

COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN INDIA AND RUSSIA

701. SHRI VIJAY J. DARDA:

Will the Minister of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Advanced Computing Research Centre and the Ayurveda Research Centre were established in Moscow, under the Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP) of Co-operation in Science and Technology between India and Russia, which was signed by our former Prime Minister late Shri Rajiv Gandhi and Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, on 3rd July 1987;

(b) if so, whether these application-oriented ILTP projects have achieved the envisaged objectives; and

(c) whether Government is thinking of widening the scope of projects under ILTP?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND MINISTER OF EARTH SCIENCES
(KAPIL SIBAL)

(a) Yes, Sir. Russian Indian Centre for Advanced Computing Reseqrch and Russian Indian Centre for Ayurvedic Research were established in Moscow on 3rd July 2000 and 1st October 2004 respectively under the Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP) of Co-operation in Science and Technology between India and Russia.

(b) Yes Sir, Advanced Computing Research Centre has been successfully working on joint projects related to fundamental and applied matters of algorithmic support for high-efficiency computers of parallel architectural design; development of software products; numeric modelling and researching in the field of continuum mechanics; physics; high-power shock detonation wave physics; ecology; geology and geophysics; processing of seismic data; weather forecasting and climate modelling; economics; satellite computer technologies; remote probing. Ayurvedic Research Centre is working towards providing necessary research and development base for undertaking studies including those on the pharmacokinetics of ayurvedic drugs, including toxicity studies and development of improved processes for the formulation of standardized Ayurvedic drugs. Presently one major project on "Genotype-phenotype correlation based on the principles of ayurveda with special focus on prakriti" is being implemented.

(c) Presently, there is no proposal to widen the scope of these Centres.