Mangaluru, Feb 11: Youngsters in villages need the best education and opportunities to realise their innate intellectual talent, said scientist and Bharat Ratna Awardee C.N.R Rao here on Saturday.
Delivering the Yenepoya Foundation lecture at Yenepoya University, Mr. Rao said that there were many people living outside cities, like Bengaluru and Mangaluru, who lacked the opportunities to progress in life.
“There are 50 million people like this in the country. There will be at least 50 persons among them who have the talent to shine. Your (the educational institution) job and my job is to find such persons,” he said. There was a need to promote education, science and innovation in rural areas, he said.
Mr. Rao said that youngsters in rural areas are the future of India and their intellectual capacity should be unleashed.
“There is no need for the Prime Minister to advise us. These youngsters are so powerful they can change India and take care of it.”
Mr. Rao said that he spent 15% of his income for activities in rural areas to spark the imagination of young minds. On Friday, he and his wife, Indumati Rao, had an interaction with children in a school in Sullia.
Mr. Rao said that the field of science was competitive and in scientific research, the county was far behind China, the U.K. and the U.S.
Earlier Chancellor of Yenepoya University Yenepoya Abdulla Kunhi conferred Mr. Rao with the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa). Mr. Rao also inaugurated the Yenepoya Narcotics Educational Foundation of India on the occasion.
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