SCIENTIFIC SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (SSR)
- October 10, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Science and tech
Context: Central government may soon announce a national policy on SSR.
Concept:
- Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR) is the confluence of scientific knowledge with visionary leadership and social conscience.
- It is about building synergies among all stakeholders in scientific knowledge community and also about developing linkages between science and society.
- It will include a range of activities like delivering lectures in educational institutes, writing an article in a magazine or doing something beyond the curriculum.
- However, this initiative may not be mandatory like the Corporate Social Responsibility (where large companies have to spend 2 per cent of the average profit of the previous three years on specified CSR activities) in legal perspective.
- The initiative is being spearheaded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), which is part of the government.
SERB:
- It is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology.
- It is chaired by the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Science and Technology.
- It was set up for promoting basic research in science and engineering and to provide financial assistance to scientists, academic institutions, Research and Development laboratories, industrial concerns and other agencies for such research.