Dharmendra Pradhan releases ‘Empowering India - Ideas for Action by Scientists and Engineers’ Book

Dharmendra Pradhan, Education Minister, Govt of India, released the book ‘Empowering India - Ideas for Action by Scientists and Engineers’ authored by Prof. T. Pradeep and Mr. Krishnan Narayanan. 

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has released a book - ‘Empowering India - Ideas for Action by Scientists and Engineers’ authored by Prof. T. Pradeep, a Padma Shri Awardee and Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, and Mr. Krishnan Narayanan, President, IITMAA and itihaasa Research and Digital. 

IIT Madras faculty and an alumnus have authored the book exploring ideas about what the leading research and educational institutions should do for India@100 (100 years of Independence). The book has been published by the Indian Academy of Sciences and is part of IIT Madras Alumni Association’s (IITMAA) thought leadership activities.

Over 100 scientists, including about 40 alumni of IIT Madras, have shared their inputs for the book. The proceeds from the book sales would be contributed towards the cause of science (through the Academy).

Speaking about ‘Empowering India - Ideas for Action by Scientists and Engineers’, Prof. T. Pradeep, Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, said, “We believe that the book will be of great value in building NEW India. It has 30 solid recommendations spread across 7 specific areas. If these are incorporated in our planning and policies, we are sure that India will be at its rightful place in 2047.”

Further, Mr. Krishnan Narayanan, President, IIT Madras Alumni Association, said, “We feel honoured and delighted that the association could successfully anchor both the book projects, and involve many of our alumni and other experts to contribute to this thought-leadership initiative that will help in nation building.”

In Empowering India, the Authors identified seven focus areas and outlined 30 recommendations and hundreds of case studies in science, technology and innovation for empowering India and achieving sustainable development. The book also contains ten illustrations, each of which takes a concept that symbolizes India, rural and urban, and visualizes it in a new context infused with various elements of S&T and produced by an AI engine and a human artist! 

In addition, another book on ‘Mann ki Baat - Inspiring transformational capacity of a nation and its people,’ authored by Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, Mr. Venkatraghavan K.S., Mr. Krishnan Narayanan and Prof. V.R. Muraleedharan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, has also been released. 

Speaking about the book on Mann Ki Baat, Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said, “We leveraged policy advocacy and complex living systems frameworks to analyse Mann Ki Baat and show how it has inspired the nation and created transformational capacity in the S&T ecosystem in the country, especially in the areas of research, innovation and entrepreneurship. As part of our research, we also developed a large-language-model based MKB chatbot.”

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