Kolkata
Emphasizing on the quality of education, President PranabMukherjee on Friday said Indian universities should focus on the need for promoting innovation and research.
“Indian universities need to create an ambiencewhich would help produce more Nobel laureates,” said President Mukherjee while addressing the bicentennial celebrations of Presidency University.
The President pointed out that after 1930 no Indian scholar working in Indian universities after C V Raman got Nobel Prize in original research work.
“All between 80’s and 90’s every one of themproducts of them products of Indian universities. If they can get Nobel Prizeby working in foreign universities as scholars and teachers, then why can’t we create that ambience in our universities?,” he added.
List of Indian Nobel Prize winners
| RABINDRANATH TAGORE | Nobel Prize for Literature (1913) |
| C. V. RAMAN | Nobel Prize for Physics (1930) |
| HARGOBIND KHORANA | The Nobel Prize for Medicine (1968) |
| MOTHER TERESA | The Nobel Peace Prize (1979) |
| SUBRAMANIAN CHANDRASHEKAR | The Nobel Prize for Physics (1983) |
| AMARTYA SEN | Nobel Prize for Economics (1998) |
| VENKATRAMANRAMAKRISHNAN | Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2009) |
