If Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan's description of the Indian Science Congress as a circus set you thinking about the state of science in the country, here are some numbers that should stop you in your tracks: 59% of secondary schools in India don't have an integrated science laboratory although science is compulsory till class 10. So, a vast majority of students 'study' science without ever seeing any experiment, let alone doing it. At the +2 level where students opt for science, just 32% schools have separate rooms for laboratories and a quarter of them are 'partially equipped'. Perhaps they are being taught via the web? No chance, because just 37% of schools have a computer with net connection...................Read more

Source: The Times of India