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be also increasing opportunities for active participation in research
in mathematics and statistics, and physico-chemical and
technological sciences. In establishing research units in underdeveloped
countries it would be desirable to keep one broad
aim in view, namely, to encourage joint studies by active collaboration
between different research units. This would help
in developing a community of research cells or units which, in
its turn, would foster the growth of the spirit of scientific criticism
and appraisal among wider circles of scientific workers.
6.6. To attract competent visiting scientists it is necessary
to offer them facilities to pursue or start fruitful research in the
less advanced countries; sometimes special equipment may
have to be provided for this purpose. Secondly, the assignment
in a less advanced country, would have to be treated as deputation
in the same way as participation in scientific expeditions,
and which would be recognised as a part of normal
duties and also as a possible qualification for promotion. The
visiting scientist must receive sufficient compensation in his
aome currency to meet his continuing home commitments
during his absence abroad. Living and other local expenses
should be normally met by the institution or by the government
of the country in which he would work. Such sharing
of costs would promote effective cooperation in the less advanced
countrv, and would also reduce the total cost appreciably.
6.7. An important part of the responsibilities of a visiting
scientist would be to give training to the scientific workers of
the underdeveloped countries. When necessary, the visiting
scientists would be able to select, for further training in an
advanced country, the right type of persons who can be depended
upon to go back to their own country after the completion
of the training abroad. It would be also possible to give aid
in the form of equipment and instruments in an effective way
on the basis of objective appraisals of needs and possibilities
by the visiting scientists.
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