.In India there is no research only politics.Here there is no research atitude.Although there few fellows (I am talking in Physics) but rest are junk which don't want to leave the place.Take the barc itself it a govt running company.There people are trained like horse and donkeys which serve for their higher authorities .There is no pravitatision no regulations no liberations extra.Who care the same is the situation in IIT Kanpur , BHU, BARC,or any other nuclear research centre or physics research centre how needs muger who score good rank in gate and csir,jest.good for those people who have money and brain got out here and make there life.

.To be very frankly research is the last career option in India, and that too under compulsion. Thanks to the insensitiveness of the government and their apathy towards the innocuous community of research scholars. These people dedicate themselves for building a knowledge based economy, which is having its own share of applied aspects too. This is the social justice being meted out to them by the Government of India. Great going!!!!

.In India many scholars are self motivated and in spite of low economic benefits they go for a career in research. But an average of five years (without adequate financial benefits) in the most crucial stage of research scholars’ lives sometimes seriously tests their level of patience and determination. If the Government is really interested in increasing R&D in our country it must stop shedding crocodile tears and do something truly for the research scholars.

.well a lot of discussion regarding the pay hike but no news only views no one cares for research and research fellows in India. Doing Ph.d in itself is like sacrificing whole personal life and then less money . At least students who write project. i.e. postdocs should get more money though it may be slightly less than the permanently employed people. We cannot go for strike and we cannot complain of the behaviour of government who ignored us. I donot know if any of you all there are having friends in news channel at least they can try to make a news so that the government and people can know about it.

.there is a group of scientists who believe that if research scholar will get more salary they wont do research properly. in a country like India if you do +2 and go for a call center job, you will get 10000/- per month and with experience of 1-2 years you will get 20000/-, but if you have done MSc and going for research you will get 9000/-, and you have to bear responsibility of your family also. in every convocation we can hear Vice Chancellors and politicos saying," no of students opting for research/PhD is going down". i want to ask a simple question " what they do to attract students". people in India do research because of their passion for science, and at the cost of their social life.

.I greatly support the facts mentioned in the article. Postdocs getting independent projects after a tough screening through DST, are paid a small amount as fellowship. The fellowships should be enhanced to support their expenses.

.What was the amount for Ph D Students at institutes like the IITs in 2001? Rs 5000 when they joined; after a year or so, upon an enhancement seminar, Rs 6000. The students have raised their concern that after the VIth Pay Commssion there has since then been no increase in their monthly scholarship. In between 2001 and 2007 there had been increases and that is why they get Rs 14000 and upwards amounts. Theirs is not related with the Pay Commissions, but with the economic indexes and/or market conditions. They may have certain reasons for seeking an increase but they have simply suppressed the material information of increases during 2001 and 2007, apart from those if any from 1996 to 2001 (since the previous Pay Commission recommendations were from the period 01-01-1996!). No comparison may be made with school teachers, since they are in a service, and the scholars are not rendering "service", they may be enriching the knowledge base to some extent and a very few may be acquiring patents, but how many a year and who are they? Above all, with the research degrees, if they get appointments as Research Associates or Scientists, their logic could have been tenable as projected by them, since otherwise no parallel can be drawn with the school teachers or others. Further, there is an avenue for getting recruited as college, university and/or IIT teachers, and for that avenue they are to prove that they are worth the mattle by dint of their research, so research is not payable that much, research should be facilitated and their monthly expenses as human beings should be taken care of (that is stipend/scholarship and that much they are entitled to, not remuneration). School teachers per se do not have such avenues. It is another logic that if more money is paid more capable scholars or the currently poorly paid scholars would produce more results and/or more brilliant results in research. But are these observations backed by research? It is altogether a different thing that some more increases are now due after the last increase in 2007 or so.

.I totally back what is said in this article. The scholars are expected to find out a problem, means of solving it, solve, design, finally present--too many jobs for just a salary equivalent to that of class-IV employee in many govt. offices.