Chennai:
The Planning Commission and some research organisations are not keen on accepting new andinnovative ideas from scientists, a senior Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official alleged.
"The Planning Commission, ICAR, all have said we have already done it (the new idea suggested). If you come up witha new idea, they will say they have already done it. Because they have a paper and a project for everything (every ideathey have suggested) Y S Rajan, an honorary distinguished professor at ISRO, told reporters.
Calling himself an "empirical scientist," he said "I will see what is there in the ground."
Asked if UIDAI cards being given to people by government can alone solve people's problems, he said, "You cannot solveproblems with an identity...I cannot give knowledge through a card...The problem with India is we think everything can bedone by computer. Computer has got usefulness but less limited applications."
Rajan earlier delivered the Bharat Ratna C Subramaniam Memorial Lecture.